Woman Zion, out of hand : a new materialist investigation of Zion's movement /
"This study follows the body of Woman Zion through texts and time as a premiere example of a body's agency, whether that body be literal or literary. It begins in the preexilic years of Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, and Jeremiah, descends with Woman Zion to her exilic nadir in Ezekiel and Lamentat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This study follows the body of Woman Zion through texts and time as a premiere example of a body's agency, whether that body be literal or literary. It begins in the preexilic years of Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, and Jeremiah, descends with Woman Zion to her exilic nadir in Ezekiel and Lamentations, then watches her remarkable rise in Isaiah and the texts of Early Judaism, including 1 Baruch, 4 Ezra, Galatians, and Revelation. It builds upon the insight of New Materialism, which defines agency as the ability to intra-act, to act upon and be acted upon by the world around it: an ability possessed by humans and nonhumans alike. Woman Zion is therefore more than the metaphorical space for authors to think and assert their agenda and their agency; rather, her body is an art object that displays agency of its own. This agency is evident in how her body gets out of hand, outlasts her creators, and does things they never intended her to do. Specifically: her body becomes sticky, carrier of a beloved Zion tradition that demands evolution when the impenetrable city was, in fact, penetrated. This study provides a new way to track a tradition without succumbing to the limitations of form criticism and, by definition, its tie to forms that face eventual extinction"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rice University, 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197817230 0197817238 9780197817254 0197817254 |