Results are in for the First (and hopefully not last) Ancient Near Eastern Valentine Contest

Eisenbrauns (biblical and near eastern biblio-specialists) has announced the winners of their Ancient Near Eastern Valentine Contest. The winner can be seen at the right and translates:

I love you.
I’m going to steal your heart
Because I am hungry for your love.
There is no other woman in my heart.
Unloose the bolt to your heart.
Dance with me till the land brightens.
You are my first, my end, my everything.

Heaven on earth is being in your embrace.
You are beautiful of face.
Your body is carved in alabaster.
I adore you like a flower or a star.
You are my first, my end, my everything.

I taste your lips and they are like a soft breeze.
I smell your perfume.
You are a goddess to me.
I was blind but with you I see.
I will take away your clothes
Because we wish to make love.
I breathe upon your body,
Making you tremble with exultation.
I kiss every place of your body.
You fill me with desire.
I will obey your every command.
I can’t stop loving you.
I love you.

Please note that the image is not pure digital, but was apparently hand-drawn (or hand-burned)...just wonderful. Also, don't miss the .mp3 that accompanies honorably third place winner: The Cyprosyrian Girl.

Happy Valentine's Day.