Religion and the Self in Antiquity

Subject Index

S U B J E C T I N D E X Adam, 209–210: Christian interpretations of, 212; as cosmic being, 211–212; and eyesight, 166, 168; and the Fall, 167 Aelius Theon, 5 Akabya ben Mahalalel, 202, 215 allegory: Origen’s use of, 21–22; Stoicism’s use of, 117 Ambrose of Milan, 28: on bodily discipline, 151–152 Ammonius Hermeiou, 244 Ammonius Saccas, 234–235, 243 angels: body of, 202, 216n12 Anthony, 28 Antiochus Epiphanes, 98 Apophthegmata Patrum, 223 appetite: danger of, 132 Apuleius, 64n59 Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas Aristotle, 53–54: on dreams, 116–117; and sensory distrust, 123 Artaxerxes (Persian king), 74–76 Artemidorus, 8–9: on the cause of dreams, 116–117; and the dreamer, 113; and the religious self, 110–111, 113, 115; on the soul, 117; as source for daily life, 111–112; and Stoicism , 111, 117–118 asceticism, 27–28, 83–84, 88–89: and the body, 150–152; and community, 150–151; and demons, 191; and Evagrius, 226; and Scripture , 152; and sensory experience, 146, 151 Athanasius of Alexandria, 27–28: and Life of Antony, 191 Athens: religious atmosphere of, 242 Augustine of Hippo, 52: on paradise, 156; on the resurrection body, 155–156 Augustus, 56, 59 authorial voice, 64 Babylonian exile, return from, 41–43 Babylonian Talmud, 70 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 214 baptism, 60–63: and creation, 148; and knowledge , 148; in kontakia, 169; and sensory experience, 148 Bar-Kochva, Bezalel, 97 Barsunaphius of Gaza, 192 Basil of Caesarea: on creation, 147 bathing, 206 Berchman, Robert, 35n62 Berlinerblau, Jacques, 97 blindness: in kontakia 166–167, 172; and Satan, 173 body, 18, 20, 22–24, 27, 29: of angels, 202, 216n12; and asceticism, 150; beastly function of, 197, 202; care for, 205–207; and demons, 226; as discursively malleable, 198; and excrement, 203–204; and God, 148–149, 154; ‘‘grotesque’’ characterization of, 214–215; and identity, 78–84; as image of God, 204– 205, 214; imagery for, 211; and knowledge, 154–155; as ‘‘lived’’ space, 198; as microcosm, 208–211, 213; in paradise, 157; parts of, 212; and prayer, 78–84; rabbinic understanding of, 198, 200, 213–215; and religious identity, 146–147; and religious knowledge, 141, 149; and ritual practice, 145; as salvific instrument , 150; and sexual activity, 207; and slavery , 54; and the soul, 18, 20, 22–24, 27, 157; as spatial location, 198; transformation of, 175. See also resurrection body Bowerstock, Glen, 120n4 Boyarin, Daniel, 218n37 Branham, Joan, 100 Bright, John, 40 Brown, Peter, 6 Calvin, John, 52 Cassian, John, 192: and Michel Foucault, 222; and monasticism, 230–231 Cassius Dio, 56 Christ, Jesus: and body-as-instrument, 141; and dialogue, 171; faith of, 60–61; incarnation of, 185; and smell, 169 Christian teacher, 192: and disciple, relation to, 191; and obedience, 192; and pagan teacher, di√erence from, 190–191 Christological controversy: and sensory experience , 144 Chrysostom, John: and perception, 174 Cicero, 53, 57–58 circumcision: as identity marker, 87 Clement of Alexandria: and sensory experience , 142 clothing: and identity, 80–83 communal identity: and collective memory, 85, 90; and ethnicity, 84; and opposition, 86 256 Subject Index conversion, 184, 234: catalysts for, 236; and education, 246; to paganism, 188, 235 Cox-Miller, Patricia, 100 cult of the saints, 28: and sensory experience, 143 custom: as ‘‘element’’ of dreams, 114 Cyril of Jerusalem: on the senses, 148 Daniel, 71, 87 David (King), 96 Davidman, Lynn, 48n2 Dawson, David, 35n61 Dead Sea Scrolls: on freewill o√erings, 98 demons: in ascetic life, 191; and the body, 202, 226; categorization of, 223, 225; and ‘‘talking back,’’ 223 Descartes, René, 119 Deuteronomy: compositional integrity of, 135, 138n7; and cultic worship, 125, 136; and God, 129–131; and Greek thought, 136–137; and idolatry, 123, 128, 139n10; and the ‘‘law code,’’ 135; and memory, 132; and the Pentateuch, 126–131, 138n8; and religious experience, 136; and the self, 124; and the senses, 131; and sensory reform, 135; and the ‘‘spy episode,’’ 126– 127, 130; and wisdom texts, 125, 130 diet, 87–89: as educational discipline, 133–134 Dotham, Moshe, 102n1 dreams: categories of meaning, 112; and divination , 111, 115–117; and God, 111, 116–117; and Greek psychology, 116; interpretation of, 8– 9, 112–114, 119; and language, 114; as part of the natural order, 117; private and public character of, 111; and the soul, 115–116 eating, 125: and hearing, 133; and ritual, 134; and the ‘‘sensory problem,’’ 134 education: in cities, 236, 241; and conversion, 246; di≈culties...