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

by Christl M. Maier

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,...

• 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"