Ivory tower
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An ivory tower is a state of privileged seclusion from the practicalities of real life. An ivory tower can be a place where people choose to disconnect from the rest of the world to follow their own i
An ivory tower, as symbol of Mary, in the "Hunt of the Unicorn Annunciation" from a c. 1500 Netherlandish book of hours. For the complicated iconography, see Hortus Conclusus.
Song of Songs
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The Song of Songs, also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot in the Ketuvim, the last section of the Tanakh. Unlike other books in the
Ivory tower
…concerns of everyday life. The term is often used now to refer to academia or the college and university systems. The term originated from the Biblical Song of Songs (7:4) with a different meaning and was later used as an epithet for Mary. In the Christian tradition, the term ivory tower is used as a symbol for noble…
Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893
Illustration for the first verse, a minstrel playing before Solomon (15th century Rothschild Mahzor)
A page of Rashi's interpretation of the megillot, National Library of Israel
The Shulamite by Albert Joseph Moore (1864)