Song of Solomon

The Bible contains a love dialogue between a man and woman. They describe their love and desire for each other with language that is full of lofty metaphors and even sexual imagery. The man's dialogue frequently refers to descriptions of the woman's body, including her breasts.

It is attributed to Solomon but there are lot of interesting questions to ponder. For starters, was this an actual dialogue between Solomon and his first wife Pharaoh's daughter? It refers to the woman being more beautiful than Pharaoh's mares, but then again it also refers to the wife traveling from Lebanon.

Or, was this a compilation of dialogues between Solomon and his many of wives, but was written in it's final form as one wife?

Or, was this stuff that Solomon heard other people say and that he compiled it?

If Solomon was the genius king and author of Proverbs then I think we can safely say that he was quite capable of writing this. But he still could have been inspired from the love poetry of others.

So, why is this even in the Bible? I think it is God's example of marriage. I am actually kind of surprised this book is not read more often in weddings. That would be kind of cool. I think that may have been one of its purposes.