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Performing Masculinity from Positions of Impotence: Revelation
 - Revelation is the most violent book of the New Testament. It envisions the destruction of evil in metaphorical terms reminiscent of our study of the Jewish prophets. The reigning power in the Mediterranean world in the author's time is the Roman Empire, which the author refers to as "whore Babylon," evoking a great imperial foe from the past and figuring it as a transgressive woman (the image to the right is William Blake's 1809 painting of her). Gender is also implicated in the vision of Babylon's destruction and the Christian community's redemption, as Babylon is eaten alive and the future utopia is populated with (only) celibate men.
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- Why is the most potent political power, Rome, being rendered as a woman, and a transgressive one at that? And why is the "church" being figured as celibate and male? Sex and gender figure in both central metaphors, and we want to explore why. We will analyze this book as a performance of masculinity by an author rendered impotent by the Roman Empire.
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- Tina Pippin and J. Michael Clark, "Revelation/Apocalypse," in The Queer Bible Commentary (ed. Deryn Guest, Robert E. Goss, Mona West and Thomas Bohache; London: SCM Press, 2007) 753-68
- Stephen D. Moore, "Revolting Revelations," in God's Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and around the Bible (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences; Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001) 173-99 + notes (both on Camino)
- Teresa J. Hornsby and Deryn Guest, Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation, 95-103
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Tina Pippin is Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion at Agnes Scott College, having earned the Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Her interest range from the Bible and culture to women and religion, apocalypticism, religion and postmodernism, and feminist ethics. |
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J. Michael Clark was an early advocate of gay liberation theology, with expertise in gender and ecotheology, AIDS and theodicy, women's studies, and gay sexual ethics. He has taught college writing, religious studies and gender studies at Emory University, Georgia State University, and Warren Wilson College, and was founder of the Gay Men's Issues in Religion group at the American Academy of Religion. |
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Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University. A native of Ireland, his work focuses on interface of biblical studies with literary studies, cultural studies, gender and queer studies, postcolonial approaches, and ecological studies.. |
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Teresa J. Hornsby is a Professor of Religion at Drury University and an Affiliated Professor of Religious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary. Along with her book co-authored with Deryn Guest, she is a co-editor (with Ken Stone) of Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship, and author of Sex Texts from the Bible, as well as numerous essays, chapters, and encyclopedia entries. |
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- Barr, David L. "Women in Myth and History: Deconstructing John's Characterizations." In A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins; New York: T&T Clark, 2009) 55-68.
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- Clark, J. Michael. Defying the Darkness: Gay Theology in the Shadows. Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications, 2010.
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- Collins, Adela Yarbro. "Feminine Symbolism in the Book of Revelation." In A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins; New York: T&T Clark, 2009) 121-30.
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- Huber, Lynn R. "Gazing at the Whore: Reading Revelation Queerly." In Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship (ed. Teresa J. Hornsby and Ken Stone; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011) 301-320.
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- Keller, Catherine. Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World. Boston: Beacon, 1996.
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- --------. "Ms. Calculating the Apocalypse." In Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (ed. Brenda E. Brasher and Lee Quinby; Oakville, Connecticut: Equinox, 2006) 1-13.
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- Marshall, John W. "Gender and Empire: Sexualized Violence in John's Anti-imperial Apocalypse." In A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins; New York: T&T Clark, 2009) 17-32.
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- Moore, Stephen D. Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonialism and the New Testament, The Bible in the Modern World 12. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2006.
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- --------. Revelation: Book of Torment, Book of Bliss. New York: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark International, forthcoming.
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- --------. Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology, Resources for Biblical Study 79. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature/SBL Press, 2014.
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- Økland, Jorunn. "Why Can't the Heavenly Miss Jerusalem Just Shut Up?" In A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins; New York: T&T Clark, 2009) 88-105.
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- Pippin, Tina. Apocalyptic Bodies: The Biblical End of the World in Text and Image. New York: Routledge, 1999.
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- --------. Death and Desire: The Rhetoric of Gender in the Apocalypse of John, Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1992.
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- --------. "The Heroine and the Whore: The Apocalypse of John in Feminist Perspective." In From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective (ed. David M. Rhoads; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005) 127-45.
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- Samuelsson, Maria Jansdotter. "The Final Apocalypse of Phallocentrism: Irigarayan Openings to the Matrix of Male Desire and Correction of the Non-male Subject in the Book of Revelation." Feminist Theology 21:1 (2012) 101-115.
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- Selvidge, Marla J. "Reflections on Violence and Pornography: Misogyny in the Apocalypse and Ancient Hebrew Prophecy." In A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament (ed. Athalya Brenner-Idan; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 274-85.
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- Stenström, Hanna. "'They Have Not Defiled Themselves with Women…': Christian Identity according to the Book of Revelation." In A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John (ed. Amy-Jill Levine and Maria Mayo Robbins; New York: T&T Clark, 2009) 33-54.
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