Dressing Judeans and Christians in antiquity

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Contents: Introduction: `What shall we wear?', Alicia J. Batten, Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Kristi Upson Saia. Part 1 Dress and the Social Body: What to wear: women's adornment and Judean identity in the 3rd century Mishnah, Naftali S. Cohn Coming apart at the seams: cross-dressing, masculinity, and the social body in late Antiquity, Maria E. Doerfler. Part 2 Dress and Relationality: `The holy habit and the teachings of the elders': clothing and social memory in late Antique monasticism, Rebecca Krawiec Unravelling the pallium dispute between Gregory the Great and John of Ravenna, Adam Serfass. Part 3 Dress and Character Types: the unibrow that never was: Paul's appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, Callie Callon Adorning the protagonist: the use of dress in the Book of Judith, Erin K. Vearncombe. Part 4 Dress and Status Change: A robe like lightning: clothing changes and identification in Joseph and Aseneth, Meredith Warren Hairiness and holiness in the early Christian desert, Kristi Upson-Saia. Part 5 Dress, Image, and Discourse: Sizing up the philosopher's cloak: Christian verbal and visual representations of the TribA n, Arthur P. Urbano Imagining Judean priestly dress: the Berne Josephus and Judea Capta coinage, Joan E. Taylor. Part 6 Dress and Material Realities: Putting on the perfect man: clothing and soteriology in the Gospel of Philip, Carly Daniel-Hughes The paradoxical pearl: signifying the pearl East and West, Alicia J. Batten Bibliography of secondary sources Index.