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  III. Conclusion In this study I have sought to interpret the Song as it might have been understood by a member of the messianic remnant within Israel in the years prior to the coming of Jesus of Nazareth. I am thus trying to read the Song as it might have been understood prior to the allegorizations introduced by both the Rabbis and the early Christians. It seems to me that this non-allegorical messianic interpretation of the Song is simultaneously the most plausible interpretation of 63 Gordis, Song of Songs and Lamentations, 37-38 (italics in the original). 342 WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL the Song given its canonical context,64 and the most ‘‘Christian’’ understanding of the Song, for the early Christians read similar texts messianically (cf. the use of Ps 45 in Heb 1). The hermeneutical implications of this study are far-reaching. Roland Murphy writes: ‘‘Recent critics have been unable to establish an objective exegetical basis for decoding the Song...