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Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity /

Title
Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity / Colleen M. Conway.
Author
Conway, Colleen M.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description
ix, 254 p.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and indexes.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780195325324 (alk. paper)
  • 019532532X (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007035820
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library