ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dressing issue in regard to how people might imagine Judean priestly clothing: the clothing worn by priests only within the Jerusalem Temple compound. This Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, and thereafter priests no longer undertook their sacred duties in their distinctive clothing in this place. In order to identify images of it accurately, people need to pay very close attention to texts, and the different languages of texts. However, people understanding of these texts based on how well translators can properly 'see' clothing described in them. The chapter considers two images: firstly, a representation of the historian Josephus found in a ninth-century manuscript in the Berne Burgerbibliothek, and, secondly, the representation of a kneeling Judean man on Roman coins that were issued after the destruction of the Temple, in the first century CE. Judaea Capta coins show Judeans behaving in the manner of the Roman arch-enemies further East, the Parthians, or whether they depict Judean clothing.
