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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Publishing Ltd,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Contents; List of Plates; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: "What Shall We Wear?"; Part 1: Dress and the Social Body; 1 What to Wear: Women's Adornment and Judean Identity in the Third Century Mishnah; 2 Coming Apart at the Seams: Cross-dressing, Masculinity, and the Social Body in Late Antiquity; Part 2 Dress and Relationality; 3 "The Holy Habit and the Teachings of the Elders": Clothing and Social Memory in Late Antique Monasticism; 4 Unraveling the Pallium Dispute between Gregory the Great and John of Ravenna.
- Part 3 Dress and Character Types5 The Unibrow That Never Was: Paul's Appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla; 6 Adorning the Protagonist: The Use of Dress in the Book of Judith; Part 4 Dress and Status Change; 7 A Robe like Lightning: Clothing Changes and Identification in Joseph and Aseneth; 8 Hairiness and Holiness in the Early Christian Desert; Part 5 Dress, Image, and Discourse; 9 Sizing up the Philosopher's Cloak: Christian Verbal and Visual Representations of the Tribōn; 10 Imagining Judean Priestly Dress: The Berne Josephus and Judaea Capta Coinage.
- Part 6 Dress and Material Realities11 Putting on the Perfect Man: Clothing and Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip; 12 The Paradoxical Pearl: Signifying the Pearl East and West; Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index.