Eating Babylon, Eating Jesus: Anthropophagy and Ritual Subversion in Revelation 17
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2025-06-17
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Language of consumption winds its way around the body of the Whore of Babylon in Revelation 17. Despite the debated nature of Babylon’s identity, controversy around her violent death, and questions regarding her relationship to the beast she rides, little attention has been paid by scholarship to the anthropophagic imagery surrounding her. This thesis will offer new insights into the meaning of the motifs of eating and drinking human flesh and blood in Revelation 17. It will do so by asking how these motifs are used in ancient Afro-Asian literature, in the Graeco-Roman world, and in other New Testament texts. I will then explore the parallels between the consumption of Jesus in the New Testament and the consumption of Babylon.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen