Research Catalog

Title

Daughter Zion, mother Zion : gender, space, and the sacred in ancient Israel / Christl M. Maier.

Author

Maier, Christl M., 1962-

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©2008.

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Details

Description

x, 285 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Bible. > Feminist criticism
• Bible
• Bibel
• Bible > Feminist criticism
• Personification in the Bible
• Feminist criticism
• Jerusalem in the Bible
• Feminisierung
• Heiligtum
• Mutter Motiv
• Nationenbildung
• Personifikation
• Religiöse Identität
• Tochter Motiv
• Zionismus
• Oude Testament
• Plaats
• Sekseverschillen
• Het Heilige
• Jerusalem > In the Bible
• Israel Altertum
• Zion Jerusalem
• Jerusalem
• Jerusalem (Israel) > In the Bible
• Jerusalem > Zion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-275) and indexes.

Contents

Methodology : how to approach texts that describe "sacred space" -- The preexilic Zion tradition in Psalms and Prophets -- The feminization of space : daughter Zion in Isaiah 1-39 and Jeremiah 4-6 -- The whoring of Jersualem in prophetic texts -- Daughter Zion's wounded body in Lamentations -- The ascent and rebuilding of Jerusalem in Isaiah 40-66 -- Zion as mother and pilgrimage site -- From daughter Zion to mother Zion : the emergence of a religious symbol.

ISBN

• 9780800662417
• 0800662415

LCCN

2008017541

OCLC

• ocn226304713
• 226304713
• SCSB-1496981

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library