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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.
This book studies comparisons and possible trajectories between
three 'catholic' epistles, and traditions associated with Jesus.
Part A analyzes why James would recall the teachings of Jesus, how
he alters these teachings, and what such adaptation suggests about
his audience. Part B turns to the Jesus tradition and 1 and 2
Peter. What can 1 Peter's use of Isaiah 53 tell us about the
historical Jesus? How has 1 Peter conflated early Jesus traditions
with those of ancient Judaism in order to develop certain ideas?
How does 2 Peter allude to Gospel traditions? Moreover, how does
the author of 2 Peter use early Jesus traditions as a sort of
testimony? The book is an important contribution to scholarship on
source criticism, ancient rhetoric, and the influence of
Hellenistic, Judean and Roman traditions on early Christianity.
This book studies comparisons and possible trajectories between
three 'catholic' epistles: James, 1 and 2 Peter, and traditions
associated with Jesus. It covers a range of approaches, exploring
the extent to which these letters 'allude' to Jesus' teachings, how
they share similar themes, and how and why the letters recall
specific memories of the figure of Jesus as found in the Gospels or
in Pauline traditions. Studies have argued that James has alluded
to some of the sayings attributed to Jesus, but there is no
consensus as to what extent or why. Part A analyzes why James would
'allude' to the teachings of Jesus, how he alters these teachings,
and what such adaptations suggests about his audience. Part B turns
to the Jesus tradition and 1 and 2 Peter. What can 1 Peter's use of
Isaiah 53 tell us about the historical Jesus? How has 1 Peter
conflated early Jesus traditions with those of ancient Judaism in
order to develop certain ideas? How does 2 Peter allude to Gospel
traditions? Moreover, how does the author of 2 Peter use early
Jesus traditions as a sort of testimony? The book is important in
assisting scholarly thought about source criticism, ancient
rhetoric, the influence of Hellenistic, Judean and Roman traditions
on early Christianity, and its social history in general.
This book surveys some of the scholarship on the letter of James
from the past 30 years, covering questions of authorship and
audience, structure and rhetoric, themes, and relationship to some
of the sayings attributed to Jesus.
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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