Exegetically Speaking: I Am Black and Beautiful: Song of Songs 1:5 - Dr. Aubrey Buster
- Andy McIlvain
- Sep 24, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 27, 2023
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Exegetically Speaking: I Am Black and Beautiful: Song of Songs 1:5 - Dr. Aubrey Buster
"Dr. Aubrey Buster, Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, contemplates how a translation of an ambiguous word can reflect and/or lead to serious errors of perception, including perceptions of race and social class. A common Hebrew conjunction used in Song of Songs 1:5 could be read as “black but beautiful” or “black and beautiful.” The latter, “and,” is more likely contextually, though it has long been translated as “but.” from video introduction
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