Making Men: The Male Coming-Of-Age Theme In The Hebrew Bible

This book identifies seven narratives of male maturation in the Hebrew Bible, and shows how this theme is employed by biblical redactors and narrators to highlight transitions in the historical prose of the Hebrew Bible. It also considers how these stories provide insight into the varying representations of biblical masculinity--

• | Author: Stephan M. Wilson
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190222824
• | ISBN-13: 9780190222826