Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets offers a new theological reading of the book of Lamentations by putting the female voice of chapters 1-2 into dialogue with the divine voice of prophetic texts in which God represents the people Israel as his wife and indicts them/her for being unfaithful to him. In Lam 1-2 we hear the “wife” talk back, and from her words we get an entirely different picture of the conflict showcased through this marriage metaphor. Mandolfo thus presents a feminist challenge to biblical hegemony and patriarchy and reconstrues biblical authority to contribute to the theological concerns of a postcolonial world.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets offers a new theological reading of the book of Lamentations by putting the female voice of chapters 1-2 into dialogue with the divine voice of prophetic texts in which God represents the people Israel as his wife and indicts them/her for being unfaithful to him. In Lam 1-2 we hear the “wife” talk back, and from her words we get an entirely different picture of the conflict showcased through this marriage metaphor. Mandolfo thus presents a feminist challenge to biblical hegemony and patriarchy and reconstrues biblical authority to contribute to the theological concerns of a postcolonial world.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations
160
Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations
160Paperback(Revised ed.)
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781589832473 |
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| Publisher: | Society of Biblical Literature |
| Publication date: | 09/15/2007 |
| Series: | Semeia Studies-Society of Biblical Literature |
| Edition description: | Revised ed. |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d) |