I love the song that Solomon wrote; it is one of my favorite texts to teach. There are several opinions about how many main characters there are in the beautiful “Song of Solomon.”  The opinion that I am most comfortable with is that there are three main characters who interact in the song.  There is the King, who I believe is Solomon himself.  There is a young Shulamite woman, who has been taken to the palace to become part of the court of young ladies.  There is a shepherd, who tends sheep in the hills of Ephraim having already won the heart of the young Shulamite.