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

By Christl M. Maier

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800662415
• ISBN13: 9780800662417
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"