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Jesus Christ: Historical Materialism, Class Conflict, and the Jesus Movement

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The Roman Empire's Gender Discourses

In the Roman world, in particular, gender was a huge concern and it was understood in ways that could be coded like politically and across class lines. So for the Jesus movement to engage in this world as a popular movement, it would get labeled social castrated or feminine eunuchs perhaps. But ironically kind of embraced some of these ideas and tried to turn them on its head. At the same time, asserting its own masculine credentials often through this redefinition of terms.

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