Unmanly Men
Subtitle: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780199325009
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. gospels; Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., n. t. acts; Masculinity
Description: This book examines key male characters in Luke-Acts with respect to constructions of gender and masculinity in the Greco-Roman world. Of all Luke's male characters, four in particular problematise elite masculine norms: Zechariah (the father of John the Baptist), the Ethiopian eunuch, Paul, and, above all, Jesus. These men do not conform to the strictures of elite masculinity, for they do not protect their bodily boundaries nor do they embody corporeal control.