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Eros and Allegory: Medieval Exegesis of the Song of Songs BISAC-FOR008000 This was until he metMonks and priests male celibates have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated their love for God in the language of sex, most prolifically and characteristically in a thousand year tradition of theological commentaries on the scriptural Song of Songs. As their allegory for the intimate love between God and man, they chose the most intense human model available erotic love. After analyzing the tradition, its logic, and its imagery, Denys