"This highly documented, fascinating book is "the culmination of years of ritualistic, agricultural, and grammatical/historical information explaining how the etrog became integral to the practice of Judaism. It's therefore an example par excellence of what plants-and-people scholarship is all about. Not only is this a wonderful, detailed journey through the history of the etrog, but readers will enjoy the 80 pictures. This would make a wonderful gift book to anyone who purchases an etrog each year." (Sybil Kaplan, thej.ca, September 15, 2021) "An exemplary piece of biblical exegesis as well as of historical botany." (Barry Dov Walfish, RBL, Review of Biblical Literature, Issue 11, 2020) "The volume comes as well with a variety of photos, drawings, and maps, along with an addendum . a bibliography, and indexes of primary sources and subjects.

" (Old Testament Abstracts, Vol. 42 (1), February, 2019).