Gender Mobility: 7 Ideas about Gender in the New Testament Period

What if our long-held understandings of gender have less historical basis than we imagine? The gender norms and sexual distinctions of the first century world that produced the New Testament were not strictly binary, as we might think. Although some ancient writers did indeed contrast male and female attributes, other social norms created considerable overlap between men and women. In Gender Mobility, Susan E. Hylen argues that the Roman gender order was definitively non-binary. She makes a...