The Song of Solomon is a book out of the Hebrew Bible – which is also the Old Testament used by Christians – also called the "Canticle of Canticles," according to Wikipedia. The book of Solomon has been a somewhat controversial book because it is actually a cycle of poems that relate, in many cases, to erotic love. It is in fact a conversation between a man and a woman about to be married (a bride and a bridegroom) talking about sexual love.
             The male's object of affection and the female's object of affection are both discussed in the poem. How was the book named? The first verse of the Book of Solomon is called, "The Song of songs, which is of (or for) Solomon. Followers of the Jewish faith believe that this book and the Song of Solomon are very special. A well-known Rabbi, Rabbi Akiba who is known as one of Judaism's great scholars, said the following: "Heaven forbid that any man in Israel ever disputed that the Song of Songs is holy. For the whole world is not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel," the Rabbi continued, "for all the Writings are holy and the Song of Songs is holy of holies."
             According to Biblia.com, in the first chapter of Song of Solomon, the King pays a visit to his vineyard, and falls in love with a young girl who is a keeper of the vineyard. "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth – for your love is more delightful than wine," the girl says (1:2). "Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard I have not kept" (1:6).
             Readers can see in this chapter that the girl is dark skinned, but she says it is because she has been out in the sun a lot, and she doesn't want to be discriminated against. Her soon-to-be lover in verse 15 is very enchanted by her,...