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Daughter Zion, Mother Zion

Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel
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In this innovative and importantwork Christl M. Maier argues thatthe way Israelites in the exilic andpost-exilic periods spoke of Jerusalemas gendered space - a "female"city - helps us trace reactions to thecrisis of exile and the emergence of anew national-religious identity. Takingup the Zion tradition in Isaiah ofJerusalem, Jeremiah, Hosea, Ezekiel,and Lamentations, Maier exploresmotifs of Jerusalem as mother,daughter, bride, whore, and injuredvictim. Her interpretation of genderedmetaphors also helps us understandcontemporary political and religiousconstructions of gender and politicalpower.
Christl M. Maier is Professor of Old Testament at Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany. She has also taught at Yale University, Humboldt University in Berlin, and in South Africa.
"Christl Maier's work in Daughter Zion, Mother Zion is a remarkable achievement in "bilingual" scholarship. Not only is Maier someone equally at home in the German and Anglo-American traditions of biblical criticism, but she also engages traditional historical-critical forms of inquiry with novel feminist theories of the body and provocative theories of spatiality itself." -- Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Provessor of Old Testament "Candler School of Theology, Emory University"
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