A Pleasing Odour for Yahweh: The smell of Sacrifices on Mount Gerizim and in the Hebrew Bible
This article investigates the importance of smell in the sacrificial cults of the ancient Mediterranean, using the Yahweh temple on Mount Gerizim and the Hebrew Bible as a case-study. The material shows that smell was an important factor in delineating sacred space in the ancient world and that the...
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Body and religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-24 |
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