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The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire

Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveil
  • ISBN-13: 9781451470154
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: FORTRESS PRESS
  • By Shanell T Smith
  • Price: AUD $106.00
  • Stock: 4 in stock
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  • Local release date: 01/10/2014
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 263.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 340g
  • Categories: Biblical commentaries [HRCG1]
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The "Great Whore" of the Book of Revelation - the hostile symbolization used to illustrate the author's critique of empire - has attracted considerable attention in Revelation scholarship. Feminist scholar Tina Pippin criticizes the use of gendered metaphors - "Babylon" as a tortured woman - which she asserts reflect an inescapably androcentric, even misogynistic, perspective. Alternatively, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza understands John's rhetoric and imagery not simply in gendered terms, but in political terms as well, observing that "Babylon" relies on conventionally coded feminine language for a city. Shanell T. Smith seeks to dismantle the either/or dichotomy within the "Great Whore" debate by bringing the categories of race/ethnicity and class to bear on John's metaphors. Her socio-cultural context impels her to be sensitive to such categories, and, therefore, leads her to hold the two elements, "woman" and "city," in tension, rather than privileging one over the other.
The Reverend Shanell T. Smith is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT. She is the author of The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire (Fortress Press, 2014) and contributor to Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament (forthcoming). She lives in Hartford, CT.
Contents:; Introduction; 1. Critical Convergences: Toward a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics; 2. Interpretive Foundations: Furthering Two Scholarly Conversations; 3. The Book of Revelation: Text and Contexts; 4. The Woman Babylon and Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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