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Seeing is Feeling: Revelation's Enthroned lamb and Ancient Visual Affects
- Author(s):
- Maia Kotrosits (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Group(s):
- Biblical Studies
- Subject(s):
- Apocalyptic literature, Church history--Primitive and early church, Bible. Revelation, Affect (Psychology)
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Apocalyptic Literature, Biblical studies, Early Christianity, Revelation, Theories of affect
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64Z82
- Abstract:
- Most scholarship of the last few decades on the book of Revelation has focused on its colonial conditions and heated, even forceful, political engagement, making conflicting conclusions about to what extent it “reproduces” or “resists” imperial ideology. Of particular focus has been the striking image of the lamb on the throne, an image that ambiguously imparts both conquest and victimhood. This essay builds on and steps to the side of this work by addressing the image of the lamb on the throne as an expressive and emotionally, rather than ideologically, ambivalent image. Placing this image alongside other affectively rich spectacles in Revelation’s context, I suggest that the enthroned lamb gives voice to conflicted feelings about imperial life: attachment and loss, extravagant dreams of sovereignty and victory, as well as the painful realities of vulnerability and subjection, all in complex inter-implication.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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