Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations

Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations
ISBN-10
1589832477
ISBN-13
9781589832473
Category
Religion
Pages
149
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Society of Biblical Lit
Author
Carleen Mandolfo

Description

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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