Reading Revelation 18: A South African Theo-Ethical Feminist Perspective in a Context of Violence against Women
This year, 2019, South Africa celebrates twenty-five years of democracy. As "times have changed," the plight of women remains the same. While many South Africans have benefitted from the fruits of freedom, women are not free from being harmed, raped and killed, as the recent spate of viole...
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| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2019, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 421-436 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Offenbarung des Johannes 18
/ Feminist exegesis
/ Violence
/ Woman
/ Patriarchate
/ Africa
/ Topicality
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HC New Testament KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Nortjé-Meyer, Lilly 1957-
B Feminism B Violence against women B socio-rhetorical interpretation B Festschrift B violence against women B Hermeneutics B theo-ethical perspective B Bible. Offenbarung des Johannes 18 B feminist insights B Revelation 18 B patriarchal readings |
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| Summary: | This year, 2019, South Africa celebrates twenty-five years of democracy. As "times have changed," the plight of women remains the same. While many South Africans have benefitted from the fruits of freedom, women are not free from being harmed, raped and killed, as the recent spate of violence against women indicates. In this article, I argue that the pressure of our time—and perhaps the pressure of all times—has been patriarchal privilege. Patriarchal privilege is endorsed, upheld and defended when feminist insights that aim to expose the inherent gender bias in texts and contemporary contexts are dismissed. In this regard, I refer to the interpretation of Revelation 18 as an example of violence against women. Here, the re-reading seeks to explore the value of a socio-rhetorical interpretation of Revelation 18 from a theo-ethical feminist perspective in a contemporary South African context—a country lauded for its non-violent transition to democracy, while, at the same time, dubbed the rape capital of the world. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2019.0025 |