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Religion Ancient Studies Religion and the Self BRAKKE, SATLOW, AND WEITZMAN in Antiquity 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 R Antiquity challenges that idea by presenting a series of studies that ex- e plore the origins, formation, and limits of the self within the religions of l the ancient Mediterranean world. Drawing on recent work on the body, i g gender, sexuality, the anthropology of the senses, and power, contribu- i tors make a strong case that the history of the self does indeed begin in o antiquity, developing as Western religion itself developed. n Contributors are David Brakke, Georgia Frank, J. Albert Harrill, Susan a Ashbrook Harvey, Esther Menn, Patricia Cox Miller, Saul M. Olyan, n Michael L. Satlow, Jonathan Schofer, Guy G. Stroumsa, Peter T. Struck, d Edward Watts, and Steven Weitzman. t David Brakke is Professor of Religious Studies and Adjunct Professor of h History at Indiana University. e S Michael L. Satlow is Associate Professor in the Program in Judaic Studies and the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University. e l f Steven Weitzman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, the Irving i M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, and Director of the Robert A. and n Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. A n t i q INDIANA u i University Press t y Bloomington & Indianapolis http://iupress.indiana.edu 1-800-842-6796 INDIANA EDITED BY DAVID BRAKKE, MICHAEL L. SATLOW, AND STEVEN WEITZMAN Cover image: Roman Fayum Funerary Portrait. © Werner Forman/CORBIS R E L I G I O N A N D T H E S E L F I N A N T I Q U I T Y Religion and the Self in Antiquity EDITED BY DAVID BRAKKE MICHAEL L. SATLOW STEVEN WEITZMAN INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by email [email protected] ∫ 2005 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. manufactured in the united states of america Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Religion and the self in antiquity / edited by David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman. p. cm. Includes index. isbn 0-253-34649-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 0-253-21796-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Self—Religious aspects—History—To 1500—Congresses. 2. Self—Mediterranean Region— History—To 1500—Congresses. I. Brakke, David. II. Satlow, Michael L. III. Weitzman, Steven, date bl65.s38r45 2005 202%.2—dc22 2005008639 1 2 3 4 5 10 09 08 07 06 05 C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I SEEKING RELIGIOUS SELVES 1. Shifting Selves in Late Antiquity patricia cox miller 15 2. The Search for the Elusive Self in Texts of the Hebrew Bible saul m. olyan 40 3. Paul and the Slave Self j. albert harrill 51 4. Prayer of the Queen: Esther’s Religious Self in the Septuagint esther menn 70 5. Giving for a Return: Jewish Votive O√erings in Late Antiquity michael l. satlow 91 6. The Self in Artemidorus’ Interpretation of Dreams peter t. struck 109 Part II SENSING RELIGIOUS SELVES 7. Sensory Reform in Deuteronomy steven weitzman 123 8. Locating the Sensing Body: Perception and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity susan ashbrook harvey 140 9. Dialogue and Deliberation: The Sensory Self in the Hymns of Romanos the Melodist georgia frank 163 Part III TEACHING RELIGIOUS SELVES 10. From Master of Wisdom to Spiritual Master in Late Antiquity guy g. stroumsa 183 11. The Beastly Body in Rabbinic Self-Formation jonathan schofer 197 vi Contents 12. Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus’ Talking Back david brakke 222 13. The Student Self in Late Antiquity edward watts 234 Contributors 253 Subject Index 255 Source Index 261 A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S This book grew out of a conference on ‘‘The Religious Self in Antiquity’’ held at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University in September 2003. The conference received financial support from the President’s Arts and Humanities Initiative, established by President Myles Brand, and from the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, then directed by Alvin Rosenfeld. Richard Miller, the chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the time, supported our e√orts, and sta√ members Jan Cobb, Patsy Ek, and Melissa Deckard helped to facilitate the con- ference. To all of these people and programs we express our gratitude. The papers in this volume benefited immensely from the rich intellectual exchange that took place at the conference. Numerous faculty and graduate stu- dents participated in the discussions, but we thank especially Robert Ford Cam- pany, Natalie Dohrmann, Constance Furey, Alan Segal, and Benjamin Sommer for their formal presentations and responses. For assistance in the preparation of the book, we are grateful to Corrine Shirley, who did preliminary copyediting; to Michael Lundell and Robert Sloan of the Indiana University Press, who expressed interest in and support for the project from its beginning; to Betsy Garman, Elisabeth Marsh, and Jane Lyle of the Press, who guided the manuscript through publication; to Bradley Storin, who created the indexes; and to Elizabeth Yoder, whose copyediting expertise saved us from errors and infelicities. Despite the generous funding awards that we received, the original conference would not have taken place nor would it have been as congenial and stimulating as it was without the crucial support of our late colleague in the Department of English, Albert Wertheim. In gratitude we dedicate this book to his memory. Abbreviations of ancient and modern sources and the style of annotation follow Patrick H. Alexander et al., eds., The SBL Handbook of Style: For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999). Additional abbreviations of ancient sources follow Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, with Henry Stuart Jones, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed.; Ox- ford: Clarendon, 1968). R E L I G I O N A N D T H E S E L F I N A N T I Q U I T Y

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