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Autore |
Conway Colleen M |
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Titolo |
Behold the man [[electronic resource] ] : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity / / Colleen M. Conway |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-34241-6 |
9786611342418 |
0-19-804360-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Men in the Bible |
Masculinity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 |
Men (Christian theology) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1. Introduction: Jesus and Gender; 2. How to Be a Man in the Greco-Roman World; 3. Constructing the Lives of Divine Men: Divus Augustus, Philo's Moses, and Philostratus's Apollonius; 4. The Unmanned Christ and the Manly Christian in the Pauline Tradition; 5. The Markan Jesus as Manly Martyr?; 6. The Matthean Jesus: Mainstream and Marginal Masculinities; 7. The Lukan Jesus and the Imperial Elite; 8. ''He Must Increase'': The Divine Masculinity of the Johannine Jesus; 9. Ruling the Nations with a Rod of Iron: Masculinity and Violence in the Book of Revelation |
10. Conclusion: The Multiple Masculinities of JesusNotes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Index of Citations |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 ideal masculinity in Greek and Roman cultures certainly pre-dated the Roman Empire, the emergence of the |
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