The Garb of Being

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