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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: ix, 254 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 019532532X
  • 9780195325324
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.830531 22
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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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