Untold tales from the Book of Revelation
Subtitle: sex and gender, empire and ecology
By: by Stephen D. Moore
Series: Society of Biblical Literature resources for biblical study -- number 79; Resources for biblical study -- no. 79.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781589839915; 9781589839908; 9781589839922
Subjects: Macht; Ecology; Criticism, interpretation; Politics in the Bible; Sex in the Bible; Bibel; Bible; Biblical teaching; Ökologie; Geschlechterforschung
Description: The book of Revelation is at once the New Testament's most notable example of anti-imperial resistance literature, its most sex-preoccupied text, and its most ecologically pertinent text. As such, Revelation has been a magnet for empire-critical and postcolonial, feminist and queer, and ecotheological and ecocritical interpretations. Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation is a collection of previously published critical and postcritical essays that brings these and other contemporary critical lenses to bear on Revelation's apocalyptic opacities and ethical conundrums. In the process, Revelation is provocatively resituated in its world(s) and ours, and the strangest of biblical books becomes even stranger. This companion to The Bible in Theory: Critical and Postcritical Essays includes a substantial introduction that maps the methodological diversification of scholarship on Revelation during the past twenty-five years. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is, what was, and what may yet be; title: Mimicry and monstrosity; title: Revolting revelations; title: Hypermasculinity and divinity; title: The empress and the brothel slave (co-authored with Jennifer A. Glancy); title: Raping Rome; title: Retching on Rome; title: Derridapocalypse (co-authored with Catherine Keller); title: Quadrupedal Christ; title: Ecotherology.