Drawing on recent work on the body, gender, sexuality, the anthropology of the senses, and power, contributors make a strong case that the history of the self does indeed begin in antiquity, developing as Western religion itself developed.
Drawing on recent work on the body, gender, sexuality, the anthropology of the senses, and power, contributors make a strong case that the history of the self does indeed begin in antiquity, developing as Western religion itself developed.
edited by David Brakke, Michael L Satlow, Steven Weitzman
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Seeking Religious Selves 1. Shifting Selves in Late AntiquityPatricia Cox Miller 2. The Search for the Elusive Self in Texts of the Hebrew BibleSaul M. Olyan 3. The Slave SelfJ. Albert Harrill 4. Prayer of the Queen: Esther's Religious Self in the SeptuagintEsther Menn 5. Giving for a Return: Jewish Votive Offerings in Late AntiquityMichael L. Satlow 6. The Self in Artemidorus' Interpretation of DreamsPeter T. Struck Part II. Sensing Religious Selves 7. Sensory Reform in DeuteronomySteven Weitzman 8. Locating the Sensing Body: Perception and Religious Identity in Late AntiquitySusan Ashbrook Harvey 9. Dialogue and Deliberation: The Sensory Self in the Hymns of Romanos the MelodistGeorgia Frank Part III. Teaching Religious Selves 10. From Master of Wisdom to Spiritual Master in Late AntiquityGuy G. Stroumsa 11. The Beastly Body in Rabbinic Self-FormationJonathan Schofer 12. Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus' Talking BackDavid Brakke 13. The Student Self in Late AntiquityEdward Watts Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Seeking Religious Selves 1. Shifting Selves in Late AntiquityPatricia Cox Miller 2. The Search for the Elusive Self in Texts of the Hebrew BibleSaul M. Olyan 3. The Slave SelfJ. Albert Harrill 4. Prayer of the Queen: Esther's Religious Self in the SeptuagintEsther Menn 5. Giving for a Return: Jewish Votive Offerings in Late AntiquityMichael L. Satlow 6. The Self in Artemidorus' Interpretation of DreamsPeter T. Struck Part II. Sensing Religious Selves 7. Sensory Reform in DeuteronomySteven Weitzman 8. Locating the Sensing Body: Perception and Religious Identity in Late AntiquitySusan Ashbrook Harvey 9. Dialogue and Deliberation: The Sensory Self in the Hymns of Romanos the MelodistGeorgia Frank Part III. Teaching Religious Selves 10. From Master of Wisdom to Spiritual Master in Late AntiquityGuy G. Stroumsa 11. The Beastly Body in Rabbinic Self-FormationJonathan Schofer 12. Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus' Talking BackDavid Brakke 13. The Student Self in Late AntiquityEdward Watts Contributors Index
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