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)
- ISBN10 9004151192
- ISBN13 9789004151192
- Publish Date 27 November 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2014
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 150
- Language English
- URL http://brill.com/product_id25808