Theology

Ulrike Sals

Die Biographie der »Hure Babylon«

Studien zur Intertextualität der Babylon-Texte in der Bibel

[The Biography of the »Whore of Babylon«. Studies of the Intertextuality of the Babylon Texts in the Bible.]

2004. X, 567 pages.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe 6

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»Babylon« is a subject which has been dealt with explicity in many biblical texts and has always been more than just a geographical entity. In detailed analyses of the various texts, Ulrike Sals shows how »Babylon« is depicted textually immanent and intertextual, since the biblical texts answer each other to such an extent that they provide a biography of Babylon as a city or kingdom, woman and principle, as portrayed in Rev 17–19.
»Babylon« is a subject which has been dealt with explicity in many biblical texts and has always been more than just a geographical entity. All the levels of »Babylon« have been dealt with differently in the various texts and do often blend together, in particular in Jer 50–51 and Rev 17–19, and then completely in the dominant European histories of reception. In detailed analyses of the various texts, Ulrike Sals shows how »Babylon« is depicted textually immanent and intertextual, since the biblical texts answer each other to such an extent that they provide a kind of biography of Babylon as a city or kingdom, woman and principle, as portrayed in Rev 17–19. In this work, the author makes an important contribution to the intertextuality debate on Old and New Testament texts as well as to the research on gender and the portrayal of cities.
Authors/Editors

Ulrike Sals Geboren 1971; Studium der Evangelischen Religionslehre und der Germanistik in Paderborn und Bochum; 2003 Promotion; Postdoc-Stipendiatin des Graduiertenkollegs »Wahrnehmung der Geschlechterdifferenz in religiösen Symbolsystemen«; Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für Evangelische Theologie und Religionspädagogik in Würzburg.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — Jg.131 (2006), H.6, S.715ff (Martin Karrer)
In: Revue d'histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses — Jg.85 (2005), H.3, S.427 (Ch. Grappe)
In: Old Testament Abstracts — 29 (2006), S. 349 (C.T.B.)
In: New Testament Abstracts — Vol.49 (2005), H.2, S. 417
In: Schlangenbrut — Jg.23 (2005), H.91, S.45f (Christina Leisering)
In: Theologische Zeitschrift — Jg.61 (2005), H.4, S. 371ff (Hartmut Raguse)
In: Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) — Bd.117 (2005), S.473f (A.C. Hagedorn)
In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung — 100 (2005), S. 621–625 (Peter Höffken)
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