03165nam 2200613Ia 450 991045111760332120200520144314.01-281-34241-697866113424180-19-804360-0(CKB)1000000000406896(EBL)415115(OCoLC)231374982(SSID)ssj0000110084(PQKBManifestationID)11135791(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110084(PQKBWorkID)10063098(PQKB)11436333(MiAaPQ)EBC415115(Au-PeEL)EBL415115(CaPaEBR)ebr10218546(CaONFJC)MIL134241(EXLCZ)99100000000040689620070828d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBehold the man[electronic resource] Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity /Colleen M. ConwayOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20081 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-532532-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and indexes.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 Revelation10. Conclusion: The Multiple Masculinities of JesusNotes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Index of CitationsIn 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 Principate concentrated this gender ideology on the figure of the emperor. Indeed, critical to the success of the empire was the portrayal of the emperor as the ideal man and the Roman citizen aMen in the BibleMasculinityReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600Men (Christian theology)Electronic books.Men in the Bible.MasculinityReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesMen (Christian theology)225.8/30531Conway Colleen M908374MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451117603321Behold the man2031634UNINA