Daughter Zion Talks Back To The Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies) (Society for Biclical Literature Semeia Studies)

Mandolfo, Carleen R.

ISBN 10: 9004151192 / ISBN 13: 9789004151192

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Daughter Zion Talks Back To The Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies) (Society for Biclical Literature Semeia Studies)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004151192
• ISBN 13: 9789004151192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Carleen Mandolfo, Ph.D. (2000) in Hebrew Bible, Emory University, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She is the author of God in the Dock: Dialogic Tension in Psalms of Lament (Sheffield Academic Press); co-author of From Earth’s Creation to John’s Revelation: The Interfaces Biblical Storyline Companion (Liturgical Press); and co-editor of Relating to the Text: Interdisciplinary and Form-Critical Insights on the Bible (T & T Clark