Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity

Synopsis

The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on dress in the ancient world. These recent studies have established the extent to which Greece and Rome were vestimentary cultures, and they have demonstrated the critical role dress played in communicating individuals’ identities, status, and authority. Despite this emerging interest in ancient dress, little work has been done to understand religious aspects and uses of dress. This volume aims to fill this gap by examining a diverse range of religious sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage, economic markets, and memories. Employing theoretical frames from a range of disciplines, contributors to the volume demonstrate how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian rhetoric, symbolism, and performance from the first century BCE to the fifth century CE. Specifically, they demonstrate 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 ancient religious life.

Copyright:

2014

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

328 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317147961

Related ISBNs:

9781472422767, 9780367879334, 9781315578125

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/30/23

Copyrighted By:

Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes and Alicia J. Batten

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kristi Upson-Saia

Edited by:

Carly Daniel-Hughes

Edited by:

Alicia J. Batten