Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquity
By: Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College, USA, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Concordia University, Canada, Alicia J. Batten, Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo, Canada
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781472422767; 9781472422774; 9781472423344
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Frühjudentum; Rabbinsk judendom; Spätantike; Religiöse Identität; Christianity; Kläder; Soziale Identität; Clothing and dress; Mode; Kleidung; Kristendom; Christentum; History and criticism; Historia; Religiösa aspekter; Judendom
Description: "This volume aims to understand religious aspects of dress in the ancient world by examining a diverse range of religious sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage, economic markets, and memories. Contributors demonstrate how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian rhetoric, symbolism, and performance, and show how religious meanings were entangled with other social logics, revealing the many layers of meaning attached to ancient dress, as well as the extent to which dress was implicated in numerous domains of religious life"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 DRESS AND THE SOCIAL BODY; title: 1. What to Wear: Women's Adornment and Judean Identity in the Third Century Mishnah / Naftali S. Cohn; title: 2.Coming Apart at the Seams: Cross-dressing, Masculinity, and the Social Body in Late Antiquity / Maria E. Doerfler; title: pt. 2 DRESS AND RELATIONALITY; title: 3."The Holy Habit and the Teachings of the Elders": Clothing and Social Memory in Late Antique Monasticism / Rebecca Krawiec; title: 4. Unraveling the Pallium Dispute between Gregory the Great and John of Ravenna / Adam Serfass; title: pt. 3 DRESS AND CHARACTER TYPES; title: 5. The Unibrow That Never Was: Paul's Appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Callie Callon; title: 6. Adorning the Protagonist: The Use of Dress in the Book of Judith / Erin K. Vearncombe; title: pt. 4 DRESS AND STATUS CHANGE; title: 7.A Robe like Lightning: Clothing Changes and Identification in Joseph and Aseneth / Meredith Warren; title: 8. Hairiness and Holiness in the Early Christian Desert / Kristi Upson-Saia.; title: Contents note continued: pt. 5 DRESS, IMAGE, AND DISCOURSE; title: 9. Sizing up the Philosopher's Cloak: Christian Verbal and Visual Representations of the Tribon / Arthur P. Urbano; title: 10. Imagining Judean Priestly Dress: The Berne Josephus and Judaea Capta Coinage / Joan E. Taylor; title: pt. 6 DRESS AND MATERIAL REALITIES; title: 11. Putting on the Perfect Man: Clothing and Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip / Carly Daniel-Hughes; title: 12. The Paradoxical Pearl: Signifying the Pearl East and West / Alicia J. Batten.