As Hosea and Hagar are real people but also signify God and Israel, so it’s possible that Solomon and the Shulammite can be real people who also signify God and his people.
Once you grant this possibility, then you can ask of the Bible some questions such as: [Read more…] about Is Song of Songs Allegorical? Five Questions I Might ask of the text
Song of Songs
Prosopology, Simply put
Prosopology is a fancy word that means studying a text to see who the main characters are. Ancient manuscripts did not have all the easy paragraph breaks we do. In the case of the Bible, it uses far fewer proper nouns than we do as well. So that makes it tough to identify who is speaking.