Behold the man :

Conway, Colleen M.

Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity / Colleen M. Conway. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - ix, 254 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

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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)

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