Al Robertson
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It's just the man was โ how many wives did he have?
700?
About 1,000.
1,000?
It was a lot.
And because a lot of it is from a woman's perspective and then you have the man's perspective.
But and now look, I did a rabbit hole on it because what I find fascinating about that book, because it's it's a collection of poems about love between a man and a woman desire.
You know, Zach brought that up, our desires and.
So, you know, the Jews will say, well, this was a picture of God being married to Israel.
Well, then the Christians came along and they're like, no, it's a picture of when Paul recorded in Ephesians 5, it's Jesus and the church.
You know, it's so funny how you read it and you're like, well, it can't be between just a husband and a wife.
I mean, it's just too graphic, you know, and it's pretty raw there about desires.
Well, now, you know, they found a lot more โ they've uncovered a lot more โ
What do they call those things?
The scrolls and all since the year 2000.
And the more you read it, there's a lot of garden imagery in there.
And that was the rabbit hole idea, which I found fascinating.
And so now a lot of scholars are saying, well, maybe it was depicting the relationship of Adam and Eve, a picture of that, before the fall, the sin, which makes a lot of sense because there's no shame.
There's no...
Well, we're all so corrupt.