Daughter Zion, mother Zion
Subtitle: gender, space, and the sacred in ancient Israel
By: Christl M. Maier.
Publisher: Fortress Press; Augsburg Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780800662417
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Feminist criticism; Jerusalem in the Bible; Personification in the  Bible
Description: An exploration of Israel's use of gender symbolism in times of crisis. In this innovative 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Methodology : how to approach texts that describe "sacred space"; title: The preexilic Zion tradition in Psalms and Prophets; title: The feminization of space : daughter Zion in Isaiah 1:39 and Jeremiah 4:6; title: The whoring of daughter Zion in prophetic texts; title: Jerusalem's wounded body in Lamentations; title: The ascent and rebuilding of Jerusalem in Isaiah 40:66; title: Zion as mother and pilgrimage site; title: From daughter Zion to mother Zion : the emergence of a religious symbol.