The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature

by Deborah A. Green

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271050667
• ISBN13: 9780271050669
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"