Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity / Colleen M. Conway.

Author/creator Conway, Colleen M.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Descriptionix, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Jesus Christ--Person and offices.
Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Men in the Bible.
Masculinity--Religious aspects. --Christianity. --History of doctrines. --Early church, ca. 30-600.
Men (Christian theology)

Contents Introduction: Jesus and gender -- How to be a man in the Greco-Roman world -- Constructing the lives of divine men : Divus Augustus, Philo's Moses, and Philostratus's Apollonius -- The unmanned Christ and the manly Christian in the Pauline tradition -- The Markan Jesus as manly martyr? -- The Matthean Jesus : mainstream and marginal masculinities -- The Lukan Jesus and the imperial elite -- "He must increase" : the divine masculinity of the Johannine Jesus -- Ruling the nations with a rod of iron : masculinity and violence in the book of Revelation -- Conclusion: The multiple masculinities of Jesus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and indexes.
LCCN 2007035820
ISBN9780195325324 (alk. paper)
ISBN019532532X (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BS2545 .M39 C66 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold