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Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel

Daughter Zion, Mother Zion: Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel

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Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0800662415
ISBN13: 9780800662417
Publisher: Augsburg Books
Published: Aug 1 2008
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

In this innovative and important work Christl M. Maier argues that the way Israelites in the exilic and post-exilic periods spoke of Jerusalem as gendered space a female city helps us trace reactions to the crisis of exile and the emergence of a new national-religious identity. Taking up the Zion tradition in Isaiah of Jerusalem, Jeremiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, and Lamentations, Maier explores motifs of Jerusalem as mother, daughter, bride, whore, and injured victim. Her interpretation of gendered metaphors also helps us understand contemporary political and religious constructions of gender and political power.

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