The Garb of Being (EPUB) von Georgia Frank

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