Which brings us back to MTV and music videos. The illustrated-song fad of the early 1900s had more in common with MTV than performance to go along with pop songs.

Figuring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries. 'Song of Songs' illustrated by Florence Kingsford/Southern Methodist University/Wikimedia ...

Song of Songs has a long history of interpretation. Some commentators, seeking the literal sense of the book, have explained it as a celebration of conjugal love in marriage.

Songs Illustrated: Phantogram’s “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” by Wes Craig. ... Craig transforms the song and its lyrics into a gothic passion play, cast in moody neon reds and grays.

So does “A Song of Songs,” at least at first. Though it’s too stylized to be sexy, its lovers, Nadine (Borinsky) and Sarah (Sekai Abeni), fall for each other in an all-consuming way ...

Yet ancient interpreters of the Song of Songs did not interpret this poetic work as a depiction of human-to-human love. In fact, while researching my book about early rabbinic interpretation of ...