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Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity /

In this book, Colleen Conway looks at the construction of masculinity in New Testament depictions of Jesus. She argues that the New Testament writers necessarily engaged the predominant gender ideology of the Roman Empire, whether consciously or unconsciously. Although the notion of what constituted...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conway, Colleen M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.