Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquity / edited by Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Alicia J. Batten.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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Introduction : "What shall we wear?" / Alicia J. Batten, Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Kristi Upson Saia -- Part 1 : dress and the social body. What to wear : women's adornment and Judean identity in the 3rd century Mishnah / Naftali S. Cohn -- Coming apart at the seams : cross-dressing, masculinity, and the social body in late Antiquity / Maria E. Doerfler -- Part 2 : dress and relationality. "The holy habit and the teachings of the elders" : clothing and social memory in late Antique monasticism / Rebecca Krawiec -- Unravelling the pallium dispute between Gregory the Great and John of Ravenna / Adam Serfass -- Part 3 : dress and character types. The unibrow that never was : Paul's appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla / Callie Callon -- Adorning the protagonist : the use of dress in the Book of Judith / Erin K. Vearncombe -- Part 4 : dress and status change. A robe like lightning : clothing changes and identification in Joseph and Aseneth / Meredith Warren -- Hairiness and holiness in the early Christian desert /Kristi Upson-Saia -- Part 5 : dress, image, and discourse. Sizing up the philosopher's cloak : Christian verbal and visual representations of the Tribōn / Arthur P. Urbano -- Imagining Judean priestly dress : the Berne Josephus and Judea Capta coinage / Joan E. Taylor -- Part 6 : dress and material realities. Putting on the perfect man : clothing and soteriology in the Gospel of Philip / Carly Daniel-Hughes -- The paradoxical pearl : signifying the pearl East and West / Alicia J. Batten.

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