Chapter Six: Catch the Little Foxes

[1] Tremper Longman III, Song of Songs, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001), 121.

[2] See Nehemiah 4:3; Ezekiel 13:4.

[3] Roland E. Murphy, The Song of Songs: A Commentary on the Book of Canticles or the Song of Songs (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990), 139.

[4] Tommy Nelson, The Book of Romance: What Solomon Says About Love, Sex, and Intimacy (Nashville: Nelson, 1998), 68.

[5] L. Koehler, W. Baumgartner, M. Richardson, and J. J. Stamm, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, electronic ed. (New York: Brill, 1999), s.v. “batar.”

[6] R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer, and B. K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, electronic ed. (Chicago: Moody, 1999), 138.

[7] Longman, 126.

[8] Marvin H. Pope, Song of Songs, The Anchor Bible (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977), 410.

[9] Kathleen Deveny, “We’re Not in the Mood,” Newsweek, June 30, 2003, 42.

[10] Steven Greenhouse, “Report Shows Americans Have More ‘Labor Days,’” New York Times (Sept. 2001), www.nytimes.com/2001/09/01/national/01HOUR.html.

[11] Dan Rutz, “Marriage Research: Working Outside of Home Does Not Affect Sex Life,” CNN Interactive, December 12, 1998, www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9812/12/work.sex.

[12] Adapted from Deveny, 43.

[13] Deveny, 153–154.

[14] Dennis and Barbara Rainey, “Controlling Busyness in Your Family Life,” adapted from Parenting Today’s Adolescents: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years (Nashville: Nelson, 1998).

[15] Adapted from Dr. Paul Pearsall, Super Marital Sex: Loving for Life (New York: Ivy Books, 1987), 16–18.