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, Philos Moses, and Philostratuss 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 Revelation ; 10.Conclusion: The Multiple Masculinities of Jesus ; Index of Primary Texts ; List of Abbreviations ; Bibliography
Colleen Conway is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. She is the author of Men and Women in the Fourth Gospel: Gender and Johannine Characterization.
"Given the abundance of work on ancient masculinities that has
appeared in the neighboring field of classics in recent decades, it
is surprising that scholars of early Christianity have had to wait
so long for a book-length study of how Jesus' masculinity is
constructed and performed in the New Testament. But it has been
worth the wait. Colleen Conway's Behold the Man is erudite,
original, provocative, and incisive. Not only should it be read
by
anyone interested in gender in/and the New Testament, it should
also be read by anyone interested in New Testament Christology.
Picking up an old feminist thread with new conceptual tools, Conway
shows how the
study of Christology is illuminated by the study of masculinity,
occasionally to the point of incineration." --Stephen D. Moore,
author of God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible and co-editor
of New Testament Masculinities
"Colleen Conway shows how New Testament authors appropriated
imperial gender rhetoric to outfit Jesus, stripped of claims to
masculinity by his humiliating death, in the armor of Roman
manhood. Essential reading on the gender dynamics of early
Christianity." --Jennifer Glancy, author of Slavery in Early
Christianity
"In this theoretically sophisticated, historically sensitive, and
engagingly written book, Colleen Conway highlights the complexities
in early Christian presentations of the masculinity of Christ.
Focusing on the writings of the Apostle Paul, the four canonical
Gospels, and the book of Revelation, Conway shows how early
Christian authors drew from common Greek and especially Roman
notions of masculinity, sometimes by outright appropriation but
also by means of
ironic imitation or sly inversion. We see the 'imperial' Jesus of
some gospel traditions and Paul, the 'ascetic' Jesus of Matthew and
Paul, and the 'militant' Jesus of Revelation. The study is
wide-ranging, well informed by recent scholarship, and eminently
readable." --Dale B. Martin, Woolsey Professor of Religious
Studies, Yale University, and author of Sex and the Single
Savior
"Colleen Conway's book Behold the Man shows that gender has been a
central concern in representations of Jesus from the beginning.
...Conway's study is important because it reveals the complex
strategies of masculinization employed by New Testament
authors...Conway's discussion of how masculinity was transmitted
from culture to individual is an especially welcome addition to
scholarship." --Church History
"[Behold the Man] offers a fresh and profound examination of how
the manliness of Jesus is deliberately affirmed in the NT, in
dialogue with the cultural expectations of the Greco-Roman
Mediterranean world of the first century. ...Conway's study
integrates the latest and best scholarship in her investigation."
--Interpretation
"Behold the Man is an ambitious book that traverses exciting new
terrain ... [It] applies new critical tools to long-standing
questions concerning Jesus' relationship to his surrounding
culture, his relationship to God, and his relationship to humanity
itself." --Koinonia
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