ANTB36H3 Final: ANTB36 Final Exam Notes
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Week 3: a feminist reading of the book of revelation. Can be read in two contexts: historical past is past; visionary of our epoch, allegorical moral code; cultural code. Genre/style: eschatological a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind, prophetic; apocalyptic; prescriptive, letter, pippin adds: fantasy, cathartic/therapeutic, and maybe horror. Written by john of patmos exited to greek island in early ad (ce: after siege of jerusalem (70ad) What"s going on at this time: persecution of christians by roman empire; probably a perceived or relative crisis, relative, not absolute or objective deprivation is common precondition of millenarian movements. What is the crisis john feels: split between jews and christians, generalized low-grade roman hatred of christians, wealth hoarding in rome"s imperial expansion. Key figures in the text who engage desire (and death): bad women jezebel, whore of babylon.
