Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Seton Hall University

...well structured, engagingly written... a thoughtful, well-researcged study which gathers together succinctly a good range of material to make its case... It presents its material well and persuasively.

• 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

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Seton Hall University

...well structured, engagingly written... a thoughtful, well-researcged study which gathers together succinctly a good range of material to make its case... It presents its material well and persuasively.

• 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

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Seton Hall University

...well structured, engagingly written... a thoughtful, well-researcged study which gathers together succinctly a good range of material to make its case... It presents its material well and persuasively.

• 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