Stephen M. Wilson was raised on a family farm in southern Delaware. While attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, he realized that the foreign culture that most fascinated him was ancient Israel, and devoted himself to studying its history and literature. He completed his doctorate at Duke University, where he specialized in social-scientific and literary readings of the Hebrew Bible. He is currently the Conrad J. Bergendoff Visiting Fellow in Religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

[I]t is clear that Wilson's book makes a solid contribution to the broader, and still growing, field of studies in biblical masculinities as well as gender in the Hebrew Bible. The first section of the book is especially well suited to introduce students to the study of masculinity and the Bible, and his careful textual analyses throughout his case studies in the second part of the book may serve as models for further investigations into biblical masculinity both hegemonic and alternative masculinities.

• Iintroduction: Masculinity Studies, Rites of Passage, and the Absence of an Extended Treatment of Male Coming of Age in Biblical Scholarship ; Chapter 1: The Defining Characteristics of Manhood in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 2: The Depiction of Boyhood in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 3: Moses and Samuel: Case Studies of Pre-Monarchic Maturation ; Chapter 4: David and Solomon: Case Studies of Royal Maturation ; Chapter 5: Failing To Come of Age in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Appendix: Are There Other Stories of Biblical Male Maturation?

Stephen M. Wilson was raised on a family farm in southern Delaware. While attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, he realized that the foreign culture that most fascinated him was ancient Israel, and devoted himself to studying its history and literature. He completed his doctorate at Duke University, where he specialized in social-scientific and literary readings of the Hebrew Bible. He is currently the Conrad J. Bergendoff Visiting Fellow in Religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

[I]t is clear that Wilson's book makes a solid contribution to the broader, and still growing, field of studies in biblical masculinities as well as gender in the Hebrew Bible. The first section of the book is especially well suited to introduce students to the study of masculinity and the Bible, and his careful textual analyses throughout his case studies in the second part of the book may serve as models for further investigations into biblical masculinity both hegemonic and alternative masculinities.

• Iintroduction: Masculinity Studies, Rites of Passage, and the Absence of an Extended Treatment of Male Coming of Age in Biblical Scholarship ; Chapter 1: The Defining Characteristics of Manhood in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 2: The Depiction of Boyhood in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 3: Moses and Samuel: Case Studies of Pre-Monarchic Maturation ; Chapter 4: David and Solomon: Case Studies of Royal Maturation ; Chapter 5: Failing To Come of Age in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Appendix: Are There Other Stories of Biblical Male Maturation?

Stephen M. Wilson was raised on a family farm in southern Delaware. While attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, he realized that the foreign culture that most fascinated him was ancient Israel, and devoted himself to studying its history and literature. He completed his doctorate at Duke University, where he specialized in social-scientific and literary readings of the Hebrew Bible. He is currently the Conrad J. Bergendoff Visiting Fellow in Religion at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.

[I]t is clear that Wilson's book makes a solid contribution to the broader, and still growing, field of studies in biblical masculinities as well as gender in the Hebrew Bible. The first section of the book is especially well suited to introduce students to the study of masculinity and the Bible, and his careful textual analyses throughout his case studies in the second part of the book may serve as models for further investigations into biblical masculinity both hegemonic and alternative masculinities.

• Iintroduction: Masculinity Studies, Rites of Passage, and the Absence of an Extended Treatment of Male Coming of Age in Biblical Scholarship ; Chapter 1: The Defining Characteristics of Manhood in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 2: The Depiction of Boyhood in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 3: Moses and Samuel: Case Studies of Pre-Monarchic Maturation ; Chapter 4: David and Solomon: Case Studies of Royal Maturation ; Chapter 5: Failing To Come of Age in the Hebrew Bible ; Chapter 6: Conclusion ; Appendix: Are There Other Stories of Biblical Male Maturation?