Thinking sex with the whore of Revelation

Female Seed as a Metaphor: Queer Kinship in Revelation 12, Ancient Medical and Literary Texts and the Septuagint

“… 37 This also applies for Babylon and Jezebel; see, e.g., Breu 2020: 289-302; Carter 2009; Marshall 2009; Menéndez-Antuña 2018; Økland 2009; Selvidge 1996; Stewart 2017; Thimmes 2009; Yarbro Collins 2009. …”

“… 42 The question of how queer Revelation is, because it is ‘at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant’ within the Roman Empire would make an interesting paper of its own. As this is, however, not the main focus of this article, I refer to others, who have dealt with Revelation’s relation to the Empire; see, e.g., Aymer 2005 and her term ‘alter imperial’; see also Wood 2015; Menéndez-Antuña 2018. …”