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Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquity / edited by Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Alicia J. Batten.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472422774 (electronic bk.)
  • 1472422775 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquityDDC classification:
  • 248.4/6 23
LOC classification:
  • BM720.C6 D74 2014eb
Online resources: Summary: "This volume aims to understand religious aspects of dress in the ancient world by examining a diverse range of religious sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage, economic markets, and memories. Contributors demonstrate how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian rhetoric, symbolism, and performance, and show 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 religious life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This volume aims to understand religious aspects of dress in the ancient world by examining a diverse range of religious sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage, economic markets, and memories. Contributors demonstrate how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian rhetoric, symbolism, and performance, and show 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 religious life"-- Provided by publisher.

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