Soft Clothing, Hard Jesus: Toughness and Class Conflict in Q 7:24–25.
Toughness appears to have been an important theme associated with the early Jesus movement. In this article, I combine critical masculinity studies with a historical materialist approach to explore how the Jesus movement's negotiation of gender and class conflict can be contextualized within the bro...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 145; no. 1; pp. 89 - 111 |
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