Honors Theses
Date of Award
2017
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Philosophy and Religion
First Advisor
James Bos
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
This is a two part thesis. Part I contains a literature survey in which I surveyed published material on the way Jesus' canonical masculinity is constructed in the context of Greco-Roman masculinities. Part II of this work is a case study analysis of the masculinity of Jesus as constructed by Marcus Borg and N.T. Wright in their book, The Meaning of Jesus. In order to do this, I surveyed literature and compiled profiles of masculinity from the late 20th century western world. Next, I analyzed Borg and Wright's Jesus' in the context of the relevant profiles of western masculinity. The findings of the case study reveal that N.T. Wright's Jesus performs a more traditional and dominant masculinity than Marcus Borg's Jesus.
Recommended Citation
Law, Joshua, "I Once Knew a Man: A Case Study Analysis of the Relationship Between Masculine Social Constructions and Historical Jesus Studies" (2017). Honors Theses. 490.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/490
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