Thinking and seeing with women in Revelation. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lynn R. Huber.
• Authors: Huber, Lynn R
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction The Veiled Language of the Apocalypse; Reading Revelation with Medieval and Modern Visionaries; Chapter 1 Seeing with John; Revelation as Visual Rhetoric; Revelation as Visionary Narrative; John as Visionary; Metaphor and Revelation; "Seeing" Things Differently; Chapter 2 Seeing Revelation in Context; Revelation in Context; Revelation's Rhetoric; Thinking with Women in the Roman World; Thinking with Women in Jewish Prophetic Traditions; Woman as Metaphor; Chapter 3 Thinking with Women in Revelation: Babylon and New Jerusalem. Babylon the Great WhoreRevelation 17; Revelation 18; Revelation 19; Revelation 21; The Bride's Invitation; Chapter 4 "With a Womb Pierced like a Net": Reading Revelation's City-Women with Two Medieval Visionaries; Seeing Revelation in the Middle Ages; Viewing the Apocalypse with Hildegard of Bingen; Envisioning Ecclesia; Introducing the Brides of Zion; Birthing the Antichrist; Being the Bride in the City, Hadewijch of Brabant; Seeing the New Jerusalem on the Feast of Saint John; Being the Bride and the Beloved. Chapter 5 "Coming into Wedding": Envisioning Revelation's Women with Two Modern VisionariesEnvisioning the Apocalypse in the Southern United States; Heeding God's Call, Sister Gertrude Morgan; Embodying the Bride; Depicting the Happy Marriage with Dada Jesus; Conjuring the New Jerusalem Court on Gloryland Street; Finding Comfort with the Bride, Myrtice West; Seeing the Mother of Harlots; Christ Returns as Church Gets Ready; Coming into Wedding; Conclusion Lifting a Veil; Works Cited; Artworks; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.
• Publisher Details: London, England New York, New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (218 pages), illustrations, tables
• Subjects: 228.06; RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament; Feminist criticism; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567064189; 0567064182; 1306846684; 9781306846684
• Related ISBNs: 9780567110244; 0567110249
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 8, 2014).
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