Die Biographie der »Hure Babylon«

»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.