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I'm in the process of creating an annotated bibliography of Song of Songs interpretation here.
Song of songs in the targumic tradition : vocalized Aramaic text with facing English translation and Ladino versions / [edited by] Isaac Jerusalmi. 1878191039 series Cincinnati : Ladino Books, c1993.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1484.A7 J47 1993
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1484.A7 J47 1993
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1484.A7 J47 1993
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1484.A7 J47 1993

This volume has several versions of the Aramaic Targum translated into early modern Ladino. Jerusalmi has translated the Ladino into English and provided multiple useful tools for understanding the text.

Five Megilloth: a new English translation / translation of text, Rashi, and other commentaries by A.J. Rosenberg. 1880582015 (vol. 1) series. New York : Judaica Press, 1992.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1309.A3 R67 1992

This volume contains the Hebrew text of the Rabbinic Bible for Esther, The Song of Songs, and Ruth.  It includes an English  translation of the Biblical text, the Targum, Rashi, and selected commentary from other Rabbinic sources.


. Song of songs: tr. from the original Hebrew, with a commentary, historical and critical, by Christian D. Ginsburg. series London : Longman, 1857.
Call#: Van Pelt Library 220.35v EG


This is a listing of music related to the Song of Songs that was composed in medieval or early modern Europe and is currently available on CDs.

. Perspectives on the Song of Songs = Perspektiven der Hoheliedauslegung / herausgegeben von Anselm C. Hagedorn. 3110176327 (cl.) series Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2005.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS410 .Z5 Bd.346
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS410 .Z5 Bd.346
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS410 .Z5 Bd.346
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS410 .Z5 Bd.346

This is a collection of recent essays "that aim at locating the Song of Songs in its ancient context as well as addressing problems of interpretation and the reception of this biblical book in later literature."

Engammare, Max. . Qu'il me baise des baisiers de sa bouche : le Cantique des cantiques aL la Renaissance : eLtude et bibliographie / Max Engammare. series GeneLve : Droz, 1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485 .E54 1993

This is an extensive survey and review of materials related to the Song of Songs and its interpretation in Catholic and Protestant Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation and the period leading up to them. It covers the explosion of commentaries and other works from the fourteenth century through the sixteenth century.


Falk, Marcia. Love lyrics from the Bible : a translation and literary study of the Song of Songs / Marcia Falk. 0907459064 series Sheffield [Yorkshire] : Almond Press, 1982.
Call#: Ctr for Adv Judaic Studies Lib, 4th & Walnut Sts. CJS BS1487 .F34 1982

Marcia Falk is a poet (in both Hebrew and English), liturgist, and scholar. She provides a translation of Song of Songs into poetic, modern English, with useful literary studies.

 

Murphy, Roland E. (Roland Edmund), 1917-2002. Song of Songs : a commentary on the Book of Canticles or the Song of songs / by Roland E. Murphy ; edited by S. Dean McBride, Jr. 0800660242 series Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.3 .M87 1990

Roland Murphy is a Catholic scholar of the Bible.  This is a useful, critical commentary on Song of Songs. It has an overview of the history of interpretation.

Brenner, Athalya, ed. Feminist companion to the Song of Songs / edited by Athalya Brenner. 1850752915 series Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, c1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.2 .F465 1993

This is an anthology of critical studies from feminist perspectives. Several of the studies are particularly useful, including Phyllis Trible, "Love's Lyrics Redeemed" and Francis Landy's responses; M. Deckers, "The Structure of the Song of Songs and the Centrality of nepesh"; Carol Meyers, "Gender Imagery in the Song of Songs"; Richard N. Soulen, "The wasfs of the Song of Songs and Hermeneutic"; and Marcia Falk, "The wasf"; and Athalya Brenner, "'Come Back, Come Back the Shuammite' (Song of Songs 7.1-10): A Parody of the wasf Genre".

Fox, Michael V., 1940- . Song of Songs and the ancient Egyptian love songs / Michael V. Fox. 0299100901 : series Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1985.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.2 .F69 1985

Michael Fox explores possible antecedents to the genres and traits of Song of Songs in Egyptian love poetry.

Pope, Marvin H.  Song of Songs / a new translation with introduction and commentary by Marvin H. Pope. 1st ed. 0385005695 : series Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1977.
Call#: Van Pelt Judaica/Ancient Near East Seminar (Rm. 401) BS1483 .P6 1977

Marvin Pope's magisterial commentary on Song of Songs contains a wealth of information on the original text and its interpretations.

Bloch, Ariel and Chana Bloch. Song of Songs : a new translation with an introduction and commentary / Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch ; afterword by Robert Alter. 1st ed. 0679409629 series New York : Random House, c1995.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1483 .B56 1995

Chana Bloch is a poet, translator, and literary critic.  Ariel Bloch is a Biblical scholar.  Together they have produced a beautiful translation and critical commentary on the Song of Songs. 

Matter, E. Ann. Voice of my beloved : the Song of Songs in western medieval Christianity / E. Ann Matter. 0812282310 series Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.2 .M38 1990

Ann Matter provides a survey of important approaches to interpreting the Song of Songs within western Christianity in late antiquity and the middle ages.

Nicholas, of Lyra, ca. 1270-1349. Postilla of Nicholas of Lyra on the Song of Songs / introduced, translated, and edited by James George Kiecker. [0874627036 (pbk.)] Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, 1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library BS1485.3 .N5313 1998

The Postillae of Nicholas of Lyra was the first biblical commentary to be printed. His Postillae on the Song of Songs was very widely read; it was reprinted in 34 editions by 1550. The word "postilla" apparently derives from the Latin post illa [verba], "after these words" used in medieval sermons; it refers to comments on biblical texts. Nicholas's Literal Postilla explained the Biblical text word by word.

Nicholas was a Franciscan. He read Hebrew and used Rabbinic sources such as Rashi. He knew that דדיך ddyk in Song 1:2 should be translated "amores" instead of "ubera". In his view, the first six chapters of the Song recount the history of Israel from the Exodus to the return from Babylonian Exile, and the last two chapters recount the history of the Church to Constantine.