Fishbane’s JPS Song of Songs Commentary
In modern biblical scholarship, peshat exegesis reigns supreme and the fourfold pardes system is confined to the works of traditional rabbinic scholars. A recent exception is the extraordinary commentary of the scholar and theologian Michael Fishbane, in which he attempts to consistently exegete the text of the Song of Songs on the four classic levels of interpretation, adjusted to modern sensibilities:
Peshat referring to the realm of natural experience and love;
Remez to personal spirituality;
Derash to communal religion and its duties;
Sod to cosmic and transcendental intuitions.[15]
(Song of Songs: Four Approaches to Love in Commentary and Music
Dr. Barry Dov Walfish