Die Biographie der ‘Hure Babylon’
Studien zur Intertextualitat der Babylon-Texte in der Bibel
by Ulrike Sals
English summary: 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. German description: Babylon ist mehrfach explizit behandeltes Thema biblischer Texte und ist stets mehr als eine geographische Entitat. Die Bedeutungsebenen Stadt, Reich, Prinzip, Kultur und Frau sind in den verschiedenen Texten unterschiedlich ausgearbeitet und doch oft verschmolzen, insbesondere in Jer 50-51; Offb 17-19 und vollends in den dominanten Rezeptionsgeschichten Europas. In ausfuhrlichen Analysen der Texte Gen 11,1-9; Ps 137; Jes 13,1-14,27; 21,1-10.11-12; 47; Jer 25,1-38; 50,1-51,64; Sach 5,5-11 und Offb 17,1-19,10 arbeitet Ulrike Sals heraus, wie Babylon textimmanent und intertextuell gezeichnet ist: die alttestamentlichen Texte antworten derart aufeinander, dass sie zusammengelesen eine Biographie Babylons als Stadt bzw. Reich, Frau und Prinzip zeichnen. Dies ist in Offb 17-19 mit neuen theologischen Ausrichtungen und unter Einbeziehung weiterer Texte umgesetzt. Die Autorin bietet mit dieser Studie einen Beitrag zur Intertextualitatsdebatte alt- und neutestamentlicher Texte sowie zur Gender-Forschung und zur Reprasentation von Stadten.
- By (author) Ulrike Sals
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