Current & Forthcoming Projects
With Gail R. O’Day. Revelation. Wisdom Commentary Series. Liturgical Press, 2022.
Revelation Introduction and Study Notes for a forthcoming student study Bible published by Westminster John Knox. Edited by Mary Foskett and Emerson B. Powery.
Books & Edited Volumes
With Susan E. Hylen and William M. Wright IV, Narrative Mode and Theological Clam in Johannine Literature: Essays in Honor of Gail R. O’Day. SBL Press, 2021.
With Rhiannon Graybill. The Bible, Gender, and Sexuality: Critical Readings. Bloomsbury, 2020.
Thinking and Seeing with Women in Revelation. Bloomsbury, 2013.
“Lynn R. Huber argues that the visionary aspect of Revelation, with its use of metaphorical thinking and language, is the crux of the text’s persuasive power. Emerging from a context that employs imagery to promote imperial mythologies, Revelation draws upon a long tradition of using feminine imagery as a tool of persuasion. It does so even while shaping a community identity in contrast to the dominant culture and in exclusive relationship with the Lamb. By drawing upon the work of medieval and modern visionaries, Huber answers a call to examine the way ‘real’ readers engage with biblical texts. Revealing how Revelation continues to persuade audiences through appeals to the visual and provocative imagery she offers a new sense of how the text’s metaphorical language simultaneously limits and invites new meaning, unfurling a range of interpretations.”
Review by Jonathan Downing in Relegere.
“On the Edge of Apocalypse.” Co-edited with Tom Mould. CrossCurrents, vol. 68, no. 2, 2018.
Like a Bride Adorned: Reading Metaphor in John’s Apocalypse. T&T Clark International, 2007.
Review by Alison M. Jack in The Journal for the Study of the New Testament.
Select Essays & Articles
“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.
Select Honors
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
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.
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