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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, Colleen M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Masculinity--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Masculinity.

Men (Christian theology).

Men in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Colleen Conway looks at the construction of masculinity in New Testament depictions of Jesus. The themes that emerge include the relationship between divinity and masculinity in the Roman world and in depictions of Jesus, the role of the body in relation to gender identity, and belief in Jesus as a path to a more ideal form of masculinity.

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.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-242) and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-029600-3

0-19-773831-1

1-281-34241-6

9786611342418

0-19-804360-0

OCLC:

231374982