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Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (Paperback)
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Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (Paperback)
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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.
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