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  title info:
    title: Etrog
    sub title: How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol
  name:
    name part: Moster, David Z.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 144 p. 83 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world purchase an etrog-a lemon-like fruit-to participate in the holiday ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the etrog from its evolutionary home in Yunnan, China, to the lands of India, Iran, and finally Israel, where it became integral to the Jewish celebration of Sukkot during the Second Temple period. Moster explains what Sukkot was like before and after the arrival of the etrog, and why the etrog's identification as the "choice tree fruit" of Leviticus 23:40 was by no means predetermined. He also demonstrates that once the fruit became associated with the holiday of Sukkot, it began to appear everywhere in Jewish art during the Roman and Byzantine periods, and eventually became a symbol for all the fruits of the land, and perhaps even the Jewish people as a whole.
  table of contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Journey from China to Israel -- Chapter 3 - The Many Interpretations of Peri 'eṣ Hadar (Leviticus 23:40) -- Chapter 4 - From Foreign Import to Jewish Symbol.-6. Addendum: Hala Sultan Tekke and Karnak.
  note: by David Z. Moster.
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
  subject:
    topic: Religion-History
  subject:
    topic: China-History
  subject:
    topic: Middle East-History
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
  subject:
    topic: History of Religion
  subject:
    topic: History of China
  subject:
    topic: History of the Middle East
  classification: BM1-990
  classification: 296
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319737362
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73736-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 180425
    record change date: 20191024173254.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-73736-2