Revelation

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.

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