Clothing the Body of Christ at Colossae: A Visual Construction of Identity

Canavan, Rosemary

ISBN 10: 3161517164 / ISBN 13: 9783161517167

Published by Eisenbrauns, 2012

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280 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.60 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clothing the Body of Christ at Colossae: A Visual Construction of Identity
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3161517164
• ISBN 13: 9783161517167
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

What we think of our bodies and what we wear says something about who we are and how we belong. This was the same in the ancient world. Rosemary Canavan explores the imagery of clothing and body in the first century CE Christian writing, the Letter to the Colossians. Through the use of this imagery in the letter, the writer critiques the way people understood themselves in a particular part of the Greco-Roman world in the Lycus Valley in south western Asia Minor (Turkey). An examination of statuary, funerary monuments and coins in this geographical location contemporaneous with the letter's writing reveals how clothing and body images were understood. This is then placed in dialogue with the metaphorical use of clothing and body in other texts, especially the Letter to the Colossians. Social identity and rhetorical studies draw on archaeological, epigraphical, iconographical and literary sources to formulate a new approach to biblical interpretation aptly named visual exegesis.

About the Author

Rosemary Canavan, Born 1956; 2007-10 Pastoral Associate and Lecturer Grade A, Flinders University, South Australia; Jan 2011 Appointed Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator, Melbourne College of Divinity (MCD), Australia; Nov 2011 Appointed Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research), Lecturer in New Testament, MCD University of Divinity, Australia; Dec 2011 PhD.