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Effect of Social Relationship on Sufferer: Based on Song of Songs 2-4 This article has investigated the effect of social relationship on sufferer and its positive and negative aspects. The concept of 'garden'(!G:) in Song of Songs 2 reminds us of Genesis 2-3. The concept of 'helper'(rz<[) in Genesis 2:18-25 is pivotal to understand God's creation and human disobedience, and it is a theological theme to connect between the two events. Adam's lost of a role as helper to have to help Eve who is exposed to the temptation of the serpent leads to the lost of their community the Garden of Eden (Gen. 4:12) and further changes the Garden to a doomed garden that has deep scars (Gen. 2-4). However, a winter garden in Song of Songs 2, which is a dwelling place of a suffered Shullammite woman and a closed place where oppresses her life, begins to be restored into a 'open garden' by her lover's calling her from the garden. The story of the lovers in Song of songs 2-4 also helps us understand the event of Abraham in Genesis 12, in particular, through a imperative verb Halah(%l;h'). When a man who is peeping through the windows calls her, he uses the words imperative form "arise"(ymiWq) and "let's go"(ykil.). Also, in Genesis 12:1, God requests Abraham to leave his hometown, relatives, and father's house and "go"(^l..-%l,) to the land that He will show him. The two stories that have the same motive "halah," however, gradually reach different theological conclusions. In Egypt where the desire of the powerful is at once order and commonsense, Abraham succumbs to Pharaoh who wants to possess a beautiful woman Sarah without hesitation, and Sarah also succumbs to Abraham's violence to her in another way. On the contrary, a Shullammite woman is different from Abraham and Sarah's choice. The restoration of the garden started with halah(%l;h') in Song of Songs 2 is realized by the great vision of a Shullammite woman in Song of Songs 3. As a wall and a window lattice that are between a Shullammite woman and her lover suggest, there are some risks before the winter garden is restored to a 'open garden.' However, a Shullammite woman resists the closed social structure, existing circumstance, and destiny. The suffering and risky situation of a Shullammite woman are overcame by her lover's calling her out and her answering his calling, and the garden is finally restored.

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본 연구는 창세기 2-3장과 12장을 새롭게 수용하여 아가서 2-4장을 재해석하고. 아가서 2-4장이 제시하는 연인들의 관계를 실존적인 고난과 관련하여 다룬다. 창세기 2장에서 에덴의 주인공들이 그들의 낙원을 상실한 것과는 달리 아가서의 연인들이 그들의 겨울 정원을 ‘열린 동산’으로 구축할 수 있었던 근본적인 이유를 진단하고 고난 받는 자에게 미치는 사회적 관계성(social relationship)이 중요성을 밝히고 있다. 동시에 창세기 12장에서 폭력앞에 침묵하는 사라의 모습과는 대조적으로 아가서 3장의 술람미의 적극적 탐화(探花)의 행보가 고난극복의 중요한 요소로 작동하고 있음을 밝힌다.