Garb of Being

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.

• List of Abbreviations xiIntroduction. Dangling Bodies, Robes of Glory: The Garb of Embodiment in Ancient ChristianityGeorgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs 1Part I: Making BodiesBody and Soul: Union in Creation, Reunion at ResurrectionFrances Young 15Jesus's Dazzling Garments: Origen's Exegesis of the Transfigurationin the Commentary on MatthewArthur P. Urbano 35Conversing with Clothes: Germanos and Mary's BeltThomas Arentzen 57Part II: Performing Bodies"Denominationalism" in Fourth-Century Syria: Readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22–24Sidney H. Griffith 79A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual HabitRebecca Stephens Falcasantos 101A Question of Character: The "Labor of Composition" as "Preventative Medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious HistoryRebecca Krawiec 124"I Want to Be Alone": Ascetic Celebrity and the SplendidIsolation of Simeon StylitesAndrew S. Jacobs 145Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos's Biblical RetellingsGeorgia Frank 169Christian Legend in Medieval Iraq: Siblings, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Behnam and SarahJeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent 191Part III: Scripting BodiesFive Women Martyrs: From Persia to CreteSebastian Brock 221Gregory of Nazianzus's Poetic Ascetic AestheticSuzanne Abrams Rebillard 234Eclipsed in Exile: In Defense of Athanasius and the EthiopiansBernadette McNary-Zak 263Sacred Bonds: Religion, Relationships, and the Art of PedagogyConstance M. Furey 276"And Yet the Books": Patristics in the FootnotesSusan R. Holman 294Cultural Heritage Preservation and Canon Formation:What Syriac and Coptic Can Teach Usabout the Historiography of the Digital HumanitiesCaroline T. Schroeder 318Bibliography 347List of Contributors 391Index 397