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The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire: Reading Revelation with a Postcolonial Womanist Hermeneutics of Ambiveilence

By Shanell T. Smith

Book information

Publisher
Fortress Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781451472431, 9781451470154
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2175837 bytes)
Series
Emerging Scholars
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-10 13:38:52
Christian Nonfiction; Religion & Spirituality; Non

Description

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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