Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations: 58 (Sbl - Semeia Studies) - Hardcover

Mandolfo, Carleen R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004151192 ISBN 13: 9789004151192

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007

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. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

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Review

In her study of the Psalms Mandolfo carefully and persuasively made clear that the text is multi-voiced and its intention is a dialogic practice that refuses closure and that destabilizes every would-be absolute voice. In the present study Mandolfo conti

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 Academ

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004151192
• ISBN 13: 9789004151192
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Number of pages: 149