Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (Hardcover)

Part 1 Dress and The Social Body 1. What to Wear: Women’s Adornment and Judean Identity in the Third Century MishnahNaftali S. Cohn 2. Coming Apart at the Seams: Cross-dressing, Masculinity, and the Social Body in Late AntiquityMaria E. Doerfler Part 2 Dress and Relationality 3. "The Holy Habit and the Teachings of the Elders": Clothing and Social Memory in Late Antique MonasticismRebecca Krawiec 4. Unraveling the Pallium Dispute between Gregory the Great and John of RavennaAdam Serfass Part 3 Dress and Character Types 5. The Unibrow That Never Was: Paul’s Appearance in the Acts of Paul and TheclaCallie Callon 6. Adorning the Protagonist: The Use of Dress in the Book of JudithErin K. Vearncombe Part 4 Dress and Status Change 7. A Robe like Lightning: Clothing Changes and Identification in Joseph and AsenethMeredith Warren 8. Hairiness and Holiness in the Early Christian DesertKristi Upson-Saia Part 5 Dress, Image, and Discourse 9. Sizing up the Philosopher’s Cloak: Christian Verbal and Visual Representations of the Trib?nArthur P. Urbano 10. Imagining Judean Priestly Dress: The Berne Josephus and Judaea Capta CoinageJoan E. Taylor Part 6 Dress and Material Realities 11. Putting on the Perfect Man: Clothing and Soteriology in the Gospel of PhilipCarly Daniel-Hughes 12. The Paradoxical Pearl: Signifying the Pearl East and WestAlicia J. Batten