Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquity

By Alicia J. Batten, Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes

Subjects: Rabbinical literature, history and criticism, Religiösa aspekter, Christentum, Judendom, Frühjudentum, Spätantike, Clothing and dress, Rabbinical literature, Kleidung, Religiöse Identität, Judaism, Kristendom, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Christianity, Kläder, Historia, Rabbinsk judendom, Littérature rabbinique, Soziale Identität, Mode

Description: "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"--