Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (Paperback, 1)

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 Types 5. 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 Trib?n. 10. Imagining Judean Priestly Dress: The Berne Josephus and Judaea Capta Coinage. Part 6 Dress and Material Realities 11. Putting on the Perfect Man: Clothing and Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip.12. The Paradoxical Pearl: Signifying the Pearl East and West.