Lynn R. Huber, assistant professor of religious studies, has published an article in the current volume of the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spiritualities. Titled “Sexually Explicit? Re-reading Revelation’s 144,000 Virgins as a Response to Roman Social Discourses,” this article examines the metaphorical representation of the faithful as male virgins in relation to the constructions of masculinity in the
first-century Roman Empire. Huber argues that such an investigation reveals how this
imagery functions as part of Revelation’s rejection of Roman discourse,
including the pro-family rhetoric of the Empire and popular depictions
of the hyper-masculine male.
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