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

• Autore: Conway Colleen M
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 225.8/30531
• Soggetto topico: Men in the Bible; Masculinity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600; Men (Christian theology)
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2008.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Colleen Conway looks at the construction of masculinity in New Testament depictions of Jesus. The themes that emerge include the relationship between divinity and masculinity in the Roman world and in depictions of Jesus, the role of the body in relation to gender identity, and belief in Jesus as a path to a more ideal form of masculinity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Behold the man
• ISBN: 0-19-029600-3; 0-19-773831-1; 1-281-34241-6; 9786611342418; 0-19-804360-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820663703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.