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This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences-solitary and social, private and public-that clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? The Garb of Being investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies. Contributors include S. Abrams Rebillard, T. Arentzen, S. P. Brock, R. S. Falcasantos , C. M. Furey, S. H. Griffith, R. Krawiec, B. McNary-Zak, J.-N. Mellon Saint-Laurent, C. T. Schroeder, A. P. Urbano, F. M. Young

Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations xi Introduction. Dangling Bodies, Robes of Glory: The Garb of Embodiment in Ancient Christianity Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs 1 Part I: Making Bodies Body and Soul: Union in Creation, Reunion at Resurrection Frances Young 15 Jesus's Dazzling Garments: Origen's Exegesis of the Transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew Arthur P. Urbano 35 Conversing with Clothes: Germanos and Mary's Belt Thomas Arentzen 57 Part II: Performing Bodies "Denominationalism" in Fourth-Century Syria: Readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22–24 Sidney H. Griffith 79 A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual Habit Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos 101 A Question of Character: The "Labor of Composition" as "Preventative Medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History Rebecca Krawiec 124 "I Want to Be Alone": Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites Andrew S. Jacobs 145 Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos's Biblical Retellings Georgia Frank 169 Christian Legend in Medieval Iraq: Siblings, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Behnam and Sarah Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent 191 Part III: Scripting Bodies Five Women Martyrs: From Persia to Crete Sebastian Brock 221 Gregory of Nazianzus's Poetic Ascetic Aesthetic Suzanne Abrams Rebillard 234 Eclipsed in Exile: In Defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians Bernadette McNary-Zak 263 Sacred Bonds: Religion, Relationships, and the Art of Pedagogy Constance M. Furey 276 "And Yet the Books": Patristics in the Footnotes Susan R. Holman 294 Cultural Heritage Preservation and Canon Formation: What Syriac and Coptic Can Teach Usabout the Historiography of the Digital Humanities Caroline T. Schroeder 318 Bibliography 347 List of Contributors 391 Index 397

About the Author :
Georgia Frank (Edited By) Georgia Frank is Professor of Religion at Colgate University. Andrew Jacobs (Edited By) Andrew S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Susan Holman (Edited By) Susan R. Holman is the Eckrich Chair and Professor of Religion and the Healing Arts at Valparaiso University.

Review :
This welcome collection offers many well-articulated perspectives on the role of the body in late antique religious practice and imagination.---Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School


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  • ISBN-13: 9780823287024
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0823287025
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Sub Title: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity


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