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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814682098
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 23/11/2023
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments    ix
List of Abbreviations    xiii
List of Contributors    xvii
Foreword: “Come Eat of My Bread . . . and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom”    xix
     Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: “She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25)    xxiii
     Barbara E. Reid, OP
Prologue    xliii
Authors’ Introduction: Getting Our Bearings: Putting Revelation in Context    lxi
Revelation 1   Introducing the Apocalypse    1
Revelation 2–3   To the Victor    25
Revelation 4–5   Who Sits upon the Throne?    57
Revelation 6   Revelation Unsealed    81
Revelation 7   Who Can Stand?    97
Revelation 8–9   Sounding the Alarm    117
Revelation 10   A Queer Prophetic Digression    135 
Revelation 11   The Power of Witness    145
Revelation 12:1-17   Revelation of the Goddess    163
Revelation 12:18–13:18   Meeting the Beast at the Shore    185
Revelation 14   Following the Lamb    205
Revelation 15–16   Drowning in a Sea of Plague    225
Revelation 17   The Judgment of Babylon the Great Prostitute    241
Revelation 18   The Judgment of the Great City    263
Revelation 19   Here Comes the Bride and Bridegroom    281
Revelation 20   Millennial Hope?    305
Revelation 21–22:5   Unveiling the Bride    323
Revelation 22:6-21   Final Things?    345
Works Cited    351
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings    393
Index of Subjects    405

Lynn R. Huber, Gail R. O'Day, Barbara E. Reid

Lynn R. Huber is the Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Huber completed a BA in philosophy at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, and an MDiv and PhD at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her first two books, “Like a Bride Adorned”: Reading Metaphor in John’s Apocalypse (2007) and Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation (2013), explore Revelation’s use of gendered imagery and the ways the book invites interpreters to see along with these images. 

Gail R. O’Day (1954–2018) was professor of New Testament and preaching and dean of Wake Forest School of Divinity in 2010 to 2018. In 1987–2010 she taught at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, where she was also an associate dean for seven years. O’Day’s research focused on the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation. The author of several books, O’Day was also editor of Journal of Biblical Literature in 1999–2006 and general editor of the Society of Biblical Literature book series, Early Christianity and Its Literature, in 2009 to 2014. She was an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

"Lynn Huber is the ideal person to write Revelation's first major feminist commentary in a generation. She grapples with Revelation's most glaring theological and ethical liabilities yet persistently seeks its potential for resistance and hope. By blending queer and multicultural perspectives with attention to material culture, Huber shows us what's at stake in interpreting the Apocalypse." Greg Carey, Professor of New Testament, Lancaster Theological Seminary "This monumental book is a wonderful interdisciplinary and intersectional reading of Revelation, bringing much needed insights from feminist, womanist and queer theory. As engaging as it is accessible, this volume will surely become the go-to commentary for a notoriously rich and challenging text." Meredith J. C. Warren, University of Sheffield "If you have questions about the gendered imagery in Revelation (and who doesn't?), now you have a reliable guide in Lynn Huber. In this commentary, Huber's grasp of Roman history, Greek translation, and modern interpretations of Revelation illumine John's vision at every turn. At the same time, she manages to avoid simplistic answers that flatten John's layered imagery. Essential reading for anyone who wants to dive deeper into Revelation's mysteries." Susan E. Hylen, Almar H. Shatford Professor of New Testament, Candler School of Theology, Emory University