Woman Zion, out of hand : a new materialist investigation of Zion's movement / Cindy Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Cindy, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism and interpretation.

Bible.

Women in the Bible.

Personification in the Bible.

Jerusalem--In the Bible.

Jerusalem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Cindy Dawson maps and investigates Woman Zion through texts and time as a premiere example of a body's agency. The personification of the city of Jerusalem in biblical and Early Jewish texts, Woman Zion appears in 30 texts over 800 years, during which time her body undergoes remarkable change. Dawson begins in the preexilic years of Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, and Jeremiah, descends with Woman Zion to her exilic nadir in Ezekiel and Lamentations, then watches her remarkable rise in Isaiah and the texts of Early Judaism, including 1 Baruch, 4 Ezra, Galatians, and Revelation. Building upon the insight of New Materialism, this study defines agency as the ability to intra-act, to act upon and be acted upon by the world around it.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 12, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-781725-4

0-19-781724-6

0-19-781723-8

9780197817230

OCLC:

1546501608