Full Description
While feminist interpretations of the Book of Revelation often focus on the book's use of feminine archetypes—mother, bride, and prostitute, this commentary explores how gender, sexuality, and other feminist concerns permeate the book in its entirety. By calling audience members to become victors, Revelation's author, John, commends to them an identity that flows between masculine and feminine and challenges ancient gender norms. This identity befits an audience who follow the Lamb, a genderqueer savior, wherever he goes.
In this commentary, Lynn R. Huber situates Revelation and its earliest audiences in the overlapping worlds of ancient Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and first-century Judaism. She also examines how interpreters from different generations living within other worlds have found meaning in this image-rich and meaning-full book.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
List of Contributors xvii
Foreword: "Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom" xix
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Editor's Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: "She Is a Breath of the Power of God" (Wis 7:25) xxiii
Barbara E. Reid, OP
Prologue xliii
Authors' Introduction: Getting Our Bearings: Putting Revelation in Context lxi
Revelation 1 Introducing the Apocalypse 1
Revelation 2-3 To the Victor 25
Revelation 4-5 Who Sits upon the Throne? 57
Revelation 6 Revelation Unsealed 81
Revelation 7 Who Can Stand? 97
Revelation 8-9 Sounding the Alarm 117
Revelation 10 A Queer Prophetic Digression 135
Revelation 11 The Power of Witness 145
Revelation 12:1-17 Revelation of the Goddess 163
Revelation 12:18-13:18 Meeting the Beast at the Shore 185
Revelation 14 Following the Lamb 205
Revelation 15-16 Drowning in a Sea of Plague 225
Revelation 17 The Judgment of Babylon the Great Prostitute 241
Revelation 18 The Judgment of the Great City 263
Revelation 19 Here Comes the Bride and Bridegroom 281
Revelation 20 Millennial Hope? 305
Revelation 21-22:5 Unveiling the Bride 323
Revelation 22:6-21 Final Things? 345
Works Cited 351
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings 393
Index of Subjects 405
