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Can I read The Aroma of Righteousness : Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature on EtoBox?
The Aroma of Righteousness : Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature by Deborah A. Green is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Aroma of Righteousness : Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature about?
In The Aroma of Righteousness, Deborah Green explores images of perfume and incense in late Roman and early Byzantine Jewish literature. Using literary methods to illuminate the rabbinic literature, Green demonstrates the ways in which the rabbis’ reading of biblical texts and their intimate experience with aromatics build and deepen their interpretations. The study uncovers the cultural associations that are evoked by perfume and incense in both the Hebrew Bible and midrashic texts and seeks to
Who reads The Aroma of Righteousness : Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Deborah A. Green
- Publisher
- University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271066233
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Judaism, History, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-25