Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity:

"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...

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Hauptverfasser: Upson-Saia, Kristi 1974- (VerfasserIn), Daniel-Hughes, Carly 1974- (VerfasserIn), Batten, Alicia J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2014
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Zusammenfassung:"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"..
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 293 Seiten, [4] Blätter Illustrationen
ISBN:9781472422767