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{{Short description|Biblical figure}}{{about||other uses|Shulamite (disambiguation)}}File:Gustave Moreau - Song of Songs %EF%BC%88Cantique des Cantiques%EF%BC%89 - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|upright|(Gustave Moreau]], Song of Songs: The Shulammite Maiden)A Shulamite (or Shulammite; , , ) is a person from Shulem. The Hebrew Bible identifies{{Citation needed|reason=The name does not appear explicitly as a proper name in the Hebrew Bible|date=May 2022}} as a Shulamite the swarthy, female historical figure in the Song of Songs (in the King James Version and in other Bibles called the Song of Solomon or the Canticle of Canticles).

Background

She is most likely called the Shulammite because she came from an unidentified place called Shulem. Many scholars consider Shulammite to be synonymous with Shunammite (“person from Shunem”). Shunem was a village in the territory of Issachar, north of Jezreel and south of Mount Gilboa. Other scholars link Shulem with Salem, believing Solomon's bride was from Jerusalem. Still others believe that the title Shulammite (“peaceful”) is simply the bride's married name, being the feminine form of Solomon (“peaceful”) and only used after her marriage to the king.BOOK, Pope, Marvin H., Song of Songs, 1977, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 107, The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries,weblink Solomon uses passionate language to describe his bride and their love (Song 4:1–15). Solomon clearly loved the Shulammite—and he admired her character as well as her beauty (Song 6:9). Everything about the Song of Solomon portrays the fact that this bride and groom were passionately in love and that there was mutual respect and friendship, as well (Song 8:6–7).JOURNAL, Carrier, A.S., A Study of the Form and Contents of the Song of Songs, Biblical World, 1893, 2, 4, 247-258,weblink

Shulamite in culture

Art

Image:Gustave Wappers - The Shulammite.jpg|Gustaf Wappers, The Shulammite, 1870Image:Franz Pforr - Shulamit and Mary - WGA17402.jpg|Franz Pforr, Maria and Shulammite, 1811File:Albert Joseph Moore - The Shulamite 1864.jpg|Albert Joseph Moore, The Shulamite relating the Glories of King Solomon to her Maidens, 1894File:Fountain of the smell-sunamites.JPG|Statue in Bom Jesus do Monte

Fictional entities

Shunammite is a fictional character in Gilead, in Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, titled The Testaments (2019).

See also

• Shunamitism

References

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