The Scent of the Righteous vs. the Scent of the Wicked: Body Odor as a Social Indicator of Morality in Rabbinic Literature
Perceiving the odor emitted by one’s body or clothes as a manifestation of moral identity is a cross-cultural sociological and literary phenomenon. Odors were perceived as a mark that set social boundaries and they made it possible to distinguish between groups of people by their status or identity....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2020, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-182 |
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body odor
B smell in religion |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |