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Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

By: Lynn R. Huber

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Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

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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 metaphorical language simultaneously limits and invites new meaning, unfurling a range of interpretations.

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Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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0567662616

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Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

By: Lynn R. Huber ,Gail R. O'Day

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Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

By: Lynn R. Huber ,Gail R. O'Day

While feminist interpretations of the Book of Revelation often focus on the book’s use of feminine archetypes—mother, bride, and prostitute, this commentary explores how gender, sexuality, and other feminist concerns permeate the book in its entirety. By calling audience members to become victors, Revelation’s author, John, commends to them an identity that flows between masculine and feminine and challenges ancient gender norms. This identity befits an audience who follow the Lamb, a genderqueer savior, wherever he goes. In this commentary, Lynn R. Huber situates Revelation and its earliest audiences in the overlapping worlds of ancient Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and first-century Judaism. She also examines how interpreters from different generations living within other worlds have found meaning in this image-rich and meaning-full book.

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Liturgical Press

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081468209X

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9780814682098

Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

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0567064182

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Like a Bride Adorned

Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse

By: Lynn R. Huber

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Like a Bride Adorned

Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse

By: Lynn R. Huber

The phrase "like a bride adorned" is one of the ways Revelation describes the new Jerusalem which descends from heaven. This phrase can also be read as describing one of the ways interpreters historically have understood the relationship between Revelation and its metaphorical language. In contrast to views that suggest Revelation's metaphorical language is simple adornment, Huber argues that Revelation's persuasive power resides within the text's metaphorical nature and she articulates a method for exploring how Revelation employs metaphor to shape an audience's thought. In order to gain a sense of how metaphorical language works in Revelation's highly metaphorical text,"Like a Bride Adorned:" Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse engages one set of conceptual metaphors in relation to Revelation's literary and social-historical milieu. Specifically, Huber explores the conceptual metaphors undergirding Revelation's nuptial or bridal imagery. Positioned at the culmination of the text's, nuptial imagery serves as one the text's final and arguably one of its most important characterizations of the Christian community. Examining the function of Revelation's nuptial imagery involves investigating how the text redeploys conventional metaphorical constructions used in the writings of the Hebrew prophets and how its imagery engages Greco-Roman depictions of women, weddings, and brides. Discourse about marriage and family was such an important part of Revelation's historical context, especially as it was shaped by the Roman Empire, that any discussion of the text's nuptial imagery must examine how it reflects and responds to this discourse. By addressing these questions, we see that Revelation's nuptial imagery serves to further the text's goal of shaping Christian identity in opposition to the social demands of the Roman Empire. Moreover, exploration of the conceptual metaphors undergirding Revelation's "bride adorned" reveals how John seeks to shape Christian identity as a transitional identity. Through metaphor, Revelation encourages its audience to envision the Christian community as a bride who constructs "her" own identity as she transitions into a new role in relation to God and the Lamb. Through the process of exploring Revelation's nuptial imagery with insights gained from conceptual metaphor theory, we uncover the ways that John employs metaphorical language to persuade his audience's thought about themselves and about others. Consequently, this work contributes both to our understanding of the text's nuptial imagery and to our knowledge of how Revelation employs metaphor as tool for persuasion.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0567349578

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9780567349576

Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

By: Lynn R. Huber ,Gail R. O'Day

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Like a Bride Adorned

Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse

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Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse

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This book engages one set of conceptual metaphors in relation to Revelation's literary and social-historical milieu.

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Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation

Like a Bride Adorned

Like a Bride Adorned

Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

Like a Bride Adorned

Like a Bride Adorned

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