Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity

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Label

Behold the man : Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity

Title remainder

Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity

Statement of responsibility

Colleen M. Conway

Creator

• Conway, Colleen M

Subject

• Jesus Christ -- Person and offices
• Jezus, van Nazareth, 4 v.Chr.-29 n.Chr
• Masculinity -- Religious aspects | Christianity | History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Men (Christian theology)
• Men in the Bible
• Bible, New Testament | Gospels -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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 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 a

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

225.8/30531

Index

index present

LC call number

BS2545.M39

LC item number

C66 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography