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Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine identities in the greater ancient Near East and beyond.
List of contents
Introduction
Ilona Zsolnay (
University of Pennsylvania)
1. Categorizing Men and Masculinity in Sumer
Joan Goodnick-Westenholz¿
and Ilona Zsolnay2. Men Looking At Men: The Homoerotics of Power in the State Arts of Assyria
Julia Assante (
Münster)
3. Wisdom of Former Days: The Manly Hittite King and Foolish Kumarbi, Father of the Gods
Mary R. Bachvarova (
Willamette University)
4. Female trouble and troubled males: Roiled Seas, Decadent Royals, and Mesopotamian Masculinities in Myth and Practice
J. S. Cooper (
Johns Hopkins)
5. Mapping Masculinities in the Sanskrit
Mah¿bh¿rata and
R¿m¿yäaSimon Brodbeck (
Cardiff University)
6. Mesopotamia Before and After Sodom: Colleagues, Crack Troops, Comrades-in-Arms
Ann K. Guinan (
University of Pennsylvania)
and Peter Morris (
Philadelphia)
7. Shaved Beards and Bared Buttocks: Shame and the Undermining of Masculine Performance in Biblical Texts
Hilary Lipka (
University of New Mexico)
8. Happy is the Man who Fills His Quiver with Them (Ps. 127:5): Constructions of Masculinities in the Psalms
Marc Brettler (
Duke University)
9. Relative Masculinities in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Martti Nissinen (
University of Helsinki)
10. The Masculinity of Male Angels on the Make: Genesis 6:1-4 in Early Nineteenth Century Gothic Imagination
Steven W. Holloway (
James Madison University)
About the author
Ilona Zsolnay (University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer and Consulting Scholar) specializes in ancient Near Eastern religion(s) and gender theory. She is the author of several articles which investigate the intersection between deities, clergy, and the body politic. She is also the ANE area editor of
Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Gender (ed. Julia O'Brien, 2014).
Summary
Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine identities in the greater ancient Near East and beyond.
