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List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
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Introduction, Let Your Garments Always Be Bright, Antonios Finitsis (Pacific Lutheran University, USA)
1. What to Look for in a Headdress: Magnificence and Glory in Material Culture and Iconography Significance and Signification, Brady Alan Beard (Emory University, USA)
2. Dress Deployed as an Agent of Deception in Hebrew Biblical Narratives, Heather McKay (Edge Hill University, UK)
3. Styling Eve and Adam’s Clothes, Sara M. Koenig (Seattle Pacific University, USA)
4. The Divine Clothing of Adam and Eve and the Hermeneutics of Trauma Recovery, Scott Starbuck (Gonzaga University, USA)
5. Tamar and Ruth: Dress as (Mis)Communication and Inheritance Preservation, Jennifer M. Matheny (Nazarene Theological Seminary, USA)
6. Dressing Benjaminites, Defining Kingship: Dress as a Royal Prerogative for the Tribe of Benjamin, Ellena Lyell (University of Exeter, UK)
7. Just Clothing?: The Function of Dress Metaphors in Imprecatory Psalms, Carmen Joy Imes (Prairie College, Canada)
8. 'Women Rule Over Them': Dressing for an Inverted World in Isaiah 3, Susannah Rees (King's College London, UK)
9. 'Because of my Glory I set Upon You': Transformation Through Dress in Ezekiel 16: 1-4, S.J. Parrott (Oxford University, UK)
10. Coded Critique, Validating Vestments: Joshua’s Garments in Zechariah 3, Jennifer Brown Jones (Liberty University, USA)
11. Social Standing, Agency, and the Motif of Cloth and Clothing in Esther, Selena Billington (Independent Scholar)
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About the author
Antonios Finitsis is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Pacific Lutheran University
Summary
Antonios Finitsis and contributors continue their examination of dress and clothing in the Hebrew Bible in this collection of illuminating essays. Straddling the divide between the material and the ideological, this book lends shape and texture to topics including social standing, agency, and the motif of cloth and clothing in Esther. Essays also explore the function of dress metaphors in imprecatory Psalms, the symbolic function of headdresses, and the divine clothing of Adam and Eve and the hermeneutics of trauma recovery. Together, the contributors continue to shape scholarly discourse on a growing body of scholarship on dress in the Bible.
By turning their analytical gaze to this primary evidence, the contributors are able to reveal the social, psychological, aesthetic, ideological and symbolic meanings of dress in the Hebrew Bible, thereby producing insights into the literature and cultural world of the ancient Near East.
Foreword
Expands on a growing body of research by analyzing the importance of dress in the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the articles in this volume and recommend it warmly.
