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Scenting Salvation (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
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Scenting Salvation (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) Paper back - 2015

by Susan Ashbrook Harvey

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University of California Press, August 2015. Paper Back. New.
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  • Title Scenting Salvation (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
  • Author Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 442
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date August 2015
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 173141
  • ISBN 9780520287563 / 0520287568
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Dewey Decimal Code 248.2

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From the rear cover

"Susan Ashbrook Harvey has surely produced the definitive analysis of the role of scent in Early Christian ritual and theological discourse. This is a welcome new trajectory in the study of religion and the body."--Patricia Cox Miller, author of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography

About the author

Susan Ashbrook Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints and coauthor of Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, both from UC Press.