Religion and the Self in Antiquity

David Brakke is Professor of Religious Studies and Adjunct Professor of History at Indiana University. Michael L. Satlow is Associate Professor in the Program in Judaic Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University.Steven Weitzman, the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism whose most recent publications include Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and a revised edition of The Jews: A History.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Seeking Religious Selves1. Shifting Selves in Late AntiquityPatricia Cox Miller2. The Search for the Elusive Self in Texts of the Hebrew BibleSaul M. Olyan3. The Slave SelfJ. Albert Harrill4. Prayer of the Queen: Esther's Religious Self in the SeptuagintEsther Menn5. Giving for a Return: Jewish Votive Offerings in Late AntiquityMichael L. Satlow6. The Self in Artemidorus' Interpretation of DreamsPeter T. StruckPart II. Sensing Religious Selves7. Sensory Reform in DeuteronomySteven Weitzman8. Locating the Sensing Body: Perception and Religious Identity in Late AntiquitySusan Ashbrook Harvey9. Dialogue and Deliberation: The Sensory Self in the Hymns of Romanos the MelodistGeorgia FrankPart III. Teaching Religious Selves10. From Master of Wisdom to Spiritual Master in Late AntiquityGuy G. Stroumsa11. The Beastly Body in Rabbinic Self-FormationJonathan Schofer12. Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus' Talking BackDavid Brakke13. The Student Self in Late AntiquityEdward WattsContributorsIndex