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Fruit of thy loins:
The literal rendering of the book, 'Song of Songs', reads like a eulogy of inter-racial love: 'I am black, yet comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem ... do not despise me for my swarthiness ...' etc.

For which reason you sometimes see in English translations of the Tanakh an allegorical rendering.

Anyway the entire Bible is useless without the commentaries ... however gentiles are not supposed to read the commentaries which means they are forever condemned to misunderstand the Bible (myself included of course).

Which is why I strongly suspect the Noahide precepts require that gentiles do not read the Bible at all, since the Torah is the property of the Jews, and it is theft of the highest order for a gentile to possess a copy of the Torah and read it.

MarZutra:

--- Quote from: Fruit of thy loins on January 12, 2007, 09:21:41 AM ---The literal rendering of the book, 'Song of Songs', reads like a eulogy of inter-racial love: 'I am black, yet comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem ... do not despise me for my swarthiness ...' etc.

For which reason you sometimes see in English translations of the Tanakh an allegorical rendering.

Anyway the entire Bible is useless without the commentaries ... however gentiles are not supposed to read the commentaries which means they are forever condemned to misunderstand the Bible (myself included of course).

Which is why I strongly suspect the Noahide precepts require that gentiles do not read the Bible at all, since the Torah is the property of the Jews, and it is theft of the highest order for a gentile to possess a copy of the Torah and read it.


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You make a very good point.  I have never thought of it that way....  I knew that the Torah only applied to Jews and not Gentiles. 

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