Religion and the self in antiquity / edited by David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman.

ISBN:

9780253111715

9780253217967

9780253346490

Title:

Religion and the self in antiquity / edited by David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman.

Author:

Brakke, David.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 268 pages)

Contents:

Shifting selves in late antiquity / The search for the elusive self in texts of the Hebrew Bible / The slave self / Prayer of the queen : Esther's religious self in the Septuagint / The self in Artemidorus' interpretation of dreams / Sensory reform in Deuteronomy / Locating the sensing body : perception and religious identity in late antiquity / Dialogue and deliberation : the sensory self in the hymns of Romanos the Melodist / From master of wisdom to spiritual master in late antiquity / The beastly body in rabbinic self-formation / Making public the monastic life : reading the self in Evagrius Ponticus' talking back / The student self in late antiquity

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Subject Term:

Self -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.

Self -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Brakke, David.

Satlow, Michael L.

Weitzman, Steven, 1965-

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2005

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Summary

Many recent studies have argued that the self is a modern invention, a concept developed in the last three centuries. Religion and the Self in Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that explore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of the ancient Mediterranean world. 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.

Author Notes

David Brakke is Professor of Religious Studies and Adjunct Professor of History at Indiana University.

Michael L. Satlow is Associate Professor in the Program in Judaic Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University.

Steven Weitzman, the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism whose most recent publications include Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom and a revised edition of The Jews: A History.