Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont.

"I can recommend this highly readable memoir without hesitation to anyone who would like to become immersed in the daily life of a pre-modern far-eastern society at a time when it was still largely pursuing its slow-paced ancient ways of life--and being able to do so through the eyes of a most engaging, perceptive and sympathetic witness."

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism3. Rechnitz’s Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed4. The Biblical Ethnographies of “Edo and Enam” and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue ForevermoreAppendixNotesBibliography Index

Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont.

"I can recommend this highly readable memoir without hesitation to anyone who would like to become immersed in the daily life of a pre-modern far-eastern society at a time when it was still largely pursuing its slow-paced ancient ways of life--and being able to do so through the eyes of a most engaging, perceptive and sympathetic witness."

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism3. Rechnitz’s Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed4. The Biblical Ethnographies of “Edo and Enam” and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue ForevermoreAppendixNotesBibliography Index

Vincent S. R. Brandt lives in rural Vermont.

"I can recommend this highly readable memoir without hesitation to anyone who would like to become immersed in the daily life of a pre-modern far-eastern society at a time when it was still largely pursuing its slow-paced ancient ways of life--and being able to do so through the eyes of a most engaging, perceptive and sympathetic witness."

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism3. Rechnitz’s Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed4. The Biblical Ethnographies of “Edo and Enam” and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue ForevermoreAppendixNotesBibliography Index