Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 409 pages)
ISBN:
9780823287048
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0823287041
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9780823287031
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0823287033
Series Statement:
Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought
Content:
This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and religious imagination through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction. Dangling bodies, robes of glory : the garb of embodiment in ancient Christianity / Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, Andrew S. Jacobs -- Body and soul : union in creation, reunion at resurrection / Frances Young -- Jesus's dazzling garments : Origen's exegesis of the transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew / Arthur P. Urbano -- Conversing with clothes : Germanos and Mary's belt / Thomas Arentzen -- "Denominationalism" in fourth-century Syria : readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22-24 / Sidney H. Griffith -- A school for the soul : John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the force of ritual habit / Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos -- A question of character : the "labor of composition" as "preventative medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History / Rebecca Krawiec -- "I want to be alone" : ascetic celebrity and the splendid isolation of Simeon Stylites / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Crowds and collective affect in Romanos's biblical retellings / Georgia Frank -- Christian legend in medieval Iraq : siblings, sacrifice, and sanctity in Behnam and Sarah / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent -- Five women martyrs : from Persia to Crete / Sebastian Brock -- Gregory of Nazianzus's poetic ascetic aesthetic / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard -- Eclipsed in exile : in defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians / Bernadette McNary-Zak -- Sacred bonds : religion, relationships, and the art of pedagogy / Constance M. Furey -- "And yet the books" : Patristics in the footnotes / Susan R. Holman -- Cultural heritage preservation and canon formation : what Syriac and Coptic can teach us about the historiography of the digital humanities / Caroline T. Schroeder.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Garb of being New York : Fordham University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780823287024
Language:
English
