Scholar

My writing explore’s Revelation’s imagery and its interpretation. Interested in the ways Revelation shapes how its audiences think and see, I examine how the text’s images are redeployed by later interpreters, including medieval women mystics, visionary artists from the Southeastern US, and contemporary queer interpreters. I am especially interested in visual representations of biblical texts. I have written about using visual art to teach the Bible and how Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs work with the text’s imagery in their 1988 collaboration Apocalypse. My most recent publication, written with my mentor Dr. Gail R. O’Day, is a feminist and queer commentary on the Book of Revelation published by Liturgical Press.

Praise for the Wisdom Commentary on Revelation:

“In this important and comprehensive volume, Lynn Huber unseals the scrolls of two thousand years of interpretations of this confusing and confounding biblical book. Huber stands firm in the messiness and chaos of the apocalypse, as a reliable guide through the rubble. Through the engagement with diverse approaches and voices, Huber shows us how to ‘see and hear’ this text in new ways, ways that matter in the present. She also provides us with ways to talk back to the text, questioning translation, metaphors, historical assumptions, and heteropatriarchal and political manifestations of Revelation in the world. Huber is a clear, competent, and creative translator of Revelation for our current time.” –Tina Pippin, Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion, Agnes Scott College

Books and Edited Projects

“Introduction and Study Notes to Revelation,” Westminster/ John Knox Student Study Bible. Edited by Mark Foskett and Luke Powery. Louisville, KY: Westminster/ John Knox, 2024.

“Reading Enslavement in Revelation.” In Revelation and Material Culture in the Roman East: Essays in Honor of Steven J. Friesen. Edited by Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, and Tony Keddie. London: Routledge, 2023. 32-51.

“Introduction to Revelation,” HarperCollins Study Bible. Third edition. Edited by Steven L. McKenzie et al. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2023.

“A Queer Tour of Hell.” Ancient Jew Review, May 2023.

“Revealing Christ in Revelation.” In Narrative Mode and Theological Claim: Essays on Johannine Literature in Honor of Gail R. O’Day. Edited by Lynn R. Huber, Susan E. Hylen, and William R. Wright, IV. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2021.

“The City-Women Babylon and New Jerusalem in Revelation.Huber-2 City Women.” In The Oxford Handbook on Revelation. Edited by Craig Koester. Oxford University Press, 2020.

“SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) and the Promise of Queer Happiness.” In Women and the Society of Biblical Literature. Edited by Nicole Tilford. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2019. 193-200.

“Gender in John’s Apocalypse.” In The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality. Edited by Benjamin Dunning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 349-369.

“Pulling Down the Sky: Envisioning the Apocalypse with Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs.” CrossCurrents, June 2018.

“Making Men in Revelation 2-3: Reading the Seven Messages in the Bath-Gymnasiums of Asia Minor.” In Stones, Bones and the Sacred: Essays from the Colloquia on Material Culture and Ancient Religion in Honor of Dennis E. Smith. Edited by Alan Cadwallader. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2016. 101-128.

“Gazing at the Whore: Reading Revelation Queerly.” In Bible Trouble: Queer Readings at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship, Semeia Studies. Edited by Teresa Hornsby and Ken Stone. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. 301-320.

“Sexually Explicit? Re-reading Revelation’s 144,000 Virgins as a Response to Roman Social Discourses.” Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 2.1 (2008): 3-28.

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Select Honors

Maude Sharpe Powell Professorship, 2020-2025.

Elon Distinguished Scholar Award, 2020.

Elon Gender and LGBTQIA Center Community Enrichment Award, 2019.

Elon Gender and LGBTQIA Center Faculty/ Staff Member of the Year, 2017.

LGBTQIA Community Enrichment Award, given by the Elon LGBTQIA Alumni Network, 2013.

Elon College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 2008.

Dean’s Teaching Fellow, Emory University, 2000-2001.

American Bible Society Achievement Award, Candler School of Theology, 1996.

Woodruff Fellow, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 1993-1996.

Select Leadership Roles

General Editor with Rhiannon Graybill, Sexing Scripture, book series published by Bloomsbury, 2024-present.

Member of the inaugural committee on the Status of LGBTIQ+ Scholars and Scholarship, Society of Biblical Literature, 2019-present.

Editorial Board Member, Currents in Biblical Research, 2022-present.

Editorial Board Member, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2022-present.

New Testament General Editor of Bible Odyssey, Society of Biblical Literature, 2020-2022.

Director of the Honors Program, Elon University, 2018-2022.

Promotion and Tenure Committee Chair, Elon University, 2021-2022.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Search Committee Co-Chair, Elon University, Spring 2021.

Editorial Board Member, Review of Biblical Literature, 2015-2019.

Board of Directors, Alamance County Pride, Burlington, NC, 2015-2016.

Chair, Religious Studies Department, Elon University, 2013-2017.

Founding Director, Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society, Elon University, 2011-2013.

LGBTQ Office Advisory Committee, Elon University, 2011-2013.

General Studies Curriculum Review Committee, 2009-2011.

Program Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2008-2010.