Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or "glorious" body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.

Introduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1
1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15
2 Adam's Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38
3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59
4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92
Afterword | 125
Acknowledgments | 133
Notes | 135
Bibliography | 181
Index | 199