Bibliograph

The woman Babylon and the marks of empire, reading Revelations with a postcolonial womanist hermeneutics of ambiveilence, Shanell T. Smith

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The woman Babylon and the marks of empire, reading Revelations with a postcolonial womanist hermeneutics of ambiveilence, Shanell T. Smith

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The woman Babylon and the marks of empire

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Shanell T. Smith

Series statement

Emerging scholars

Sub title

reading Revelations with a postcolonial womanist hermeneutics of ambiveilence

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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