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Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity.

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 rheto...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Upson-Saia, Kristi
Otros Autores: Daniel-Hughes, Carly, Batten, Alicia J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (320 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-283) and index.
ISBN:9781472422774
1472422775
1472422767
9781472422767
9781472423344
1472423348
9781317147961
1317147960