Manly Suffering: Trauma, Masculinity and Paul
Using a trauma lens to read 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, at the intersections of imperial discourse, masculine rhetorical claims as well as forms of imperially induced subaltern masculinity, illustrates their complex and intricate connections. The Roman Empire, which permeated the context of the Pauline...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2022, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-128 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Masculinity
/ Bible. Corinthians 2. 11,23-28
/ Roman Empire
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | Using a trauma lens to read 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, at the intersections of imperial discourse, masculine rhetorical claims as well as forms of imperially induced subaltern masculinity, illustrates their complex and intricate connections. The Roman Empire, which permeated the context of the Pauline letters, embodied and pervasively inscribed trauma on the vast majority of its subjects. Masculinity, often connected to trauma in a one-sided and simplistic way, requires analysis beyond stereotypes, ancient or modern. Second Corinthians' traumatised man pushing back against the Empire and his own emasculation, in ways that sustain the heroic Paul of Christianity, only partially engages the text, even if history is ambiguous testimony to its rhetorical success. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2022.0002 |