Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible

Antonios Finitsis is Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University, USA.

• List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations 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)Select BibliographyIndex

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