Jesus
This essay examines the diverse ways in which representations of Jesus/Christ served as paradigms for authorizing, exemplifying, and promoting early Christian beliefs and practices. It asks how ancients might have read the sex/gender status of Jesus/Christ in such depictions of him as a savvy interl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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| In: |
The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Year: 2019, Pages: 407-428 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sexuality
/ Gender
/ Jesus Christus
/ Depiction
/ Masculinity
/ Virginity
/ Marriage
/ Eunuch
/ Circumcision (Man)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This essay examines the diverse ways in which representations of Jesus/Christ served as paradigms for authorizing, exemplifying, and promoting early Christian beliefs and practices. It asks how ancients might have read the sex/gender status of Jesus/Christ in such depictions of him as a savvy interlocutor in public debates, an exorcist, an eschatological warrior, the divine Son of God, divine Wisdom, an enthroned imperial ruler, a publicly humiliated and executed criminal, a slave, a homeless man, a mother, a eunuch, the husband of many virgins, a circumcised Jew. Representations of the gender and sexuality of Jesus/Christ appear in resistance to (Roman) violence and injustice; in the cultivation of moral and spiritual selves; in intra-Christian debates regarding sexual ethics; in the promotion of Christian teachings as divinely authoritative; in the polemics of identity formation and boundary setting, especially with regard to Jews; and in theological reflection, especially Christology and ecclesiology. |
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| ISBN: | 0190213418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213398.013.19 |