Download or read book The Choice Between Two Cities written by Barbara R. Rossing and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the Apocalypse's use of familiar two-women topos (the "whore" or evil woman and the "bride" or good woman) to depict the New Jersalem as an alternative to Babylon and to exhort the audience to chose between the two cities." "Early apocalyptic language, Rossing writes, can function in two ways, either to control the behavior of individuals or to provide an alternative vision and encouragement of new community structures in the face of oppression. The choice for the good woman advocated by the Apocalypse is not a gendered or individualistic choice but a political one - a choice for God's New Jerusalem, God's alternative city of justice and well being."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved