Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation (Library of New Testament Studies | LNTS)
Overview
Lynn R. Huber argues that the visionary aspect of Revelation, with its use of metaphorical thinking and language, is the crux of the text’s persuasive power. Emerging from a context that employs imagery to promote imperial mythologies, Revelation draws upon a long tradition of using feminine imagery as a tool of persuasion. It does so even while shaping a community identity in contrast to the dominant culture and in exclusive relationship with the Lamb.
By drawing upon the work of medieval and modern visionaries, Huber answers a call to examine the way “real” readers engage with biblical texts. Revealing how Revelation continues to persuade audiences through appeals to the visual and provocative imagery, she offers a new sense of how the text’s metaphorical language simultaneously limits and invites new meaning, unfurling a range of interpretations.
- Thoughtfully examines John's use of metaphor in Revelation
- Recent developments in Johannine studies
- In-depth academic treatment of significant texts and themes in Johannine literature
- Seeing with John: Revelation, Vision and Metaphor
- Seeing and Thinking with the City-Bride: Revelation's Bridal Imagery in Context
- Becoming the Bridal City: Envisioning the Bride with Late Medieval Visionaries
- “Coming into Wedding”: Reading and Viewing Revelation in the American South
- Conclusion: Unveiling the Visible
- Title: Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation
- Author: Lynn R. Huber
- Series: Library of New Testament Studies
- Volume: 475
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Revelation › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. Revelation › Feminist criticism; Bible. N.T. Revelation › Illustrations; Marriage in the Bible; Women in the Bible; Symbolism in the Bible
- ISBNs: 9780567064189, 0567064182
- Resource ID: LLS:THNKNGSNGWMNRVL
- Resource Type: Monograph
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