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4. Revenge on Babylon: Literalist Allegory, Scripture, Torture
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Erin Runions
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Babylon and the Crisis of Sovereignty 1
- 1. From Babel to Biopolitics: Josephus, Theodemocracy, and the Regulation of Plea sure 46
- 2. Bellicose Dreams: Babylon and Exception to Law 86
- 3. Tolerating Babel: Biopolitics, Film, and Family 118
- 4. Revenge on Babylon: Literalist Allegory, Scripture, Torture 148
- 5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy 179
- 6. Babelian Scripture: A Queerly Sublime Ethics of Reading 213
- Postlude: Roads to Babel 247
- Works Cited 255
- Index 293
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Babylon and the Crisis of Sovereignty 1
- 1. From Babel to Biopolitics: Josephus, Theodemocracy, and the Regulation of Plea sure 46
- 2. Bellicose Dreams: Babylon and Exception to Law 86
- 3. Tolerating Babel: Biopolitics, Film, and Family 118
- 4. Revenge on Babylon: Literalist Allegory, Scripture, Torture 148
- 5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy 179
- 6. Babelian Scripture: A Queerly Sublime Ethics of Reading 213
- Postlude: Roads to Babel 247
- Works Cited 255
- Index 293
