Canticle of Canticles: A Study Edition with Patristic Commentary

By Michael Robert Murphy

The Canticle of Canticles has drawn the Church's deepest contemplatives back to it for two thousand years - Origen, Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis de Sales - each finding in its eight brief chapters an entire theology of divine love. This edition presents the Canticle governed throughout by the Clementine Vulgate, with the Original Douay-Rheims as its English voice, alongside patristic and Cistercian commentary drawn from Bernard, Gilbert of Hoyland, and the Church's mystical tradition.

A unique Reader's Edition appendix sets the entire Song of Songs side by side in six ancient witnesses - the Latin Vulgate, the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, the Syriac Peshitta, the Douay-Rheims, and the Catholic Public Domain Version - verse by verse, letting the reader see for the first time how these traditions converge, and where they genuinely differ.

Part of the Traditional Catholic Study Bible (TCSB) series.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKDGD42S
• ISBN13: 9798175540346
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"