Religion and the Self in Antiquity

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