Shanell T. Smith

Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Smith seeks to dismantle the either/or dichotomy within the "Great Whore" debate. Using postcolonial womanist interpretation of the woman Babylon, Smith highlights the simultaneous duality of her characterization-her depiction as both a female brothel slave and as an empress or imperial city. Most remarkably, however, Smith's reading also sheds light on her own ambivalent characterization as both a victim and participant in empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451472431
• Artikelnr.: 41504164

Autorenporträt

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.