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Updated: May 10, 2025
Wetzstein's earlier record of similar folk-songs appears in Delitzsch's Commentary on Canticles Hohelied und Koheleth, 1875 and also in the Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, v, p. 287.
Previous commentators had sometimes held that the Song of Songs was a mere collection of detached and independent fragments, but on the basis of Wetzstein's discoveries, Professor Budde elaborated his theory, that the Song is a Syrian wedding-minstrel's repertory.
It is, as has been said above, incredible that we should have before us nothing more than the disconnected ditties of a Syrian wedding-minstrel. Graetz knew nothing of the repertoire theory that has been based on Wetzstein's discoveries of modern Syrian marriage songs and dances.
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