TY - BOOK AU - Conway,Colleen M. TI - Behold the man: Jesus and Greco-Roman masculinity SN - 9780198043607 AV - BS2545.M39 C66 2008eb U1 - 225.8/30531 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jesus Christ KW - Jezus, KW - Bible KW - Gospels KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Men in the Bible KW - Masculinity KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Men (Christian theology) KW - RELIGION KW - Biblical Studies KW - New Testament KW - bisacsh KW - Sekseverschillen KW - gtt KW - Mannelijkheid KW - Griekse oudheid KW - Romeinse oudheid KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242) 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=223856 ER -