ISTD 2017
This book is a response to an ISTD brief and was granted a pass and membership into ISTD.
The Song of Songs is said to be “the greatest of all love songs”, a series of poems from the Old Testament of the Jerusalem Bible. This story is one about a King and his lady and their love for each other, which serves as a representation for the Lord’s love for his Church. This is the allegorical interpretation that is accepted by the majority of Catholic commentators today. Other scholars prefer the more obvious meaning, for them the Song is a collection of hymns about true love sanctified by physical union. The aim of this biblical redesign is to celebrate the evolution of ‘The Song of Songs’, and what this biblical story represents that is relevant in the 21st century to a generation now strayed from religious obligation. It serves as an open invitation for its young readers to compose their own interpretations and opinions on whether the content of this story is morally correct or not. As a celebration of the pen flourishings and ornamented details of illuminated manuscripts, Hebrew typography is used throughout for decorative purposes alongside discursive footnotes both translating and posing questions to the reader in a purple, pink and red colour palette to represent the steamy historic controversy of this biblical story. Do you think it’s a story of “true love”?
