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30 October 2026
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament, Neues Testament, RELIGION / History, Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, Heilige Schriften und geheiligte Schriften, Geschichte der Religion
Introduction: Matthew's Enigmatic Eunuchs
A. The Challenge
B. Methodology
C. Scope of the Project
D. Note on Translations
Chapter 1: Eunuchs in the First Two Centuries CE: Rhetoric and Reality
A. The Language of Eunuchs
B. The Gender and Sexuality of Eunuchs
C. Eunuchs and Sex Without Procreation
D. The Sterile and Monstrous Eunuch
Chapter 2: Who Watches the Watchmen: The Eunuch in Rome
A. Martial and His Personae
B. Martial and His Mentula
C. Martial and Earinus, the Boytoy of the Emperor
D. Domitian's Revival of the Augustan Marriage Legislation
E. Eunuchs and Adultery in Elite Roman Households
F. Juvenal Concurs: Who Watches the Watchmen?
G. Cybele and the Galli in Martial's Rome
Chapter 3: The Character of the Eunuch in the Cults of the Magna Mater
A. Seeds of the Character: Origins and Myths of Cybele in the Roman World
B. Seeds of the Character: Origins and Myths of Attis in the Roman World
C. Deploying the Character: Attis and the Galli in Catullus's Rome
D. Prodigiosa (Monstrous) Atargatis: Galli in the Roman (and Greek) East
E. The Metamorphoses, by Apuleius, and Lucius, or The Ass, Ascribed to Lucian
F. Der Fromme Verfasser: Lucian of Samosata
G. Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Liminal and Lusty Eunuchs of Second Temple Literature
A. The סריסים in the Ancient Near East
B. The Books of Esther
C. The סריסים in the Joseph Narrative
D. Eunuchs in Philo's Alexandria
Chapter 5: Reorientation of Empire and Household in the Gospel of Matthew
A. The Gospel of Matthew at the Crossroads of Judaism and Roman Hegemony
B. Matthew's Kingdom of Heaven
C. Matthew's Household of Heaven
D. A Parallel New Order
Chapter 6: The Unfruitful Eunuch
A. Procreation and Fruitfulness in the Gospel of Matthew
B. Marriage in the Gospel of Matthew
C. Divorce in the Gospel of Matthew
D. Eunuchs as an Anti-Type of Discipleship
Epilogue: Minority Reports
A. Foundations of the Celibate Eunuch
B. The Eunuch as a Christian Sexual Character