Woman Zion, Out of Hand
A New Materialist Investigation of Zion's Movement
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 November 2025
- ISBN 9780197817223
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 638
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Short description:
In this groundbreaking work, Cindy Dawson maps and investigates Woman Zion through texts and time as a premiere example of a body's agency. The personification of the city of Jerusalem in biblical and Early Jewish texts, Woman Zion appears in 30 texts over 800 years, during which time her body undergoes remarkable change.
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. Here, Dawson reformulates a long-time interest of biblical studies, to show how Woman Zion's body becomes the new form.
Long description:
In this groundbreaking work, Cindy Dawson maps and investigates Woman Zion through texts and time as a premiere example of a body's agency. The personification of the city of Jerusalem in biblical and Early Jewish texts, Woman Zion appears in 30 texts over 800 years, during which time her body undergoes remarkable change. Dawson 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. Building upon the insight of New Materialism, this study defines agency as the ability to intra-act, to act upon and be acted upon by the world around it. Agency is not limited by something (i.e., "intention" or "will") that someone (i.e., a human) possesses but simply by some ability to enact change, an ability possessed by humans and nonhumans alike.
Woman Zion is therefore more than a way for authors to think, more than a mere tool by which those authors assert their agenda and their agency -- her body is in fact an art object, and at that, one with agency. This agency is ontological and furthermore demonstrable, evident in how her body gets out of hand, outlasts her creators, and does things they would never intend her to do. This study therefore 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. Here, Cindy Dawson reformulates a long-time interest of biblical studies, to show how Woman Zion's body becomes the new form.
Table of Contents:
I, Object: A New Materialist Approach to Zion Body Texts
Rhizomes Begin to Grow: Zion Body Texts in Isaiah, Micah, and Hosea
The Case Against Woman Zion: Zion Body Texts in Jeremiah
The Matter of Violence: Zion Body Texts in Ezekiel
Mothers, Interveners, and Cyborgs: Zion Body Texts in Lamentations and Micah
The Innocent Turn and the Maternal Turn: Zion Body Texts in Isa 40-66
Woman Zion Makes a (Heavenly) Move: Zion Body Texts in Early Judaism
Conclusion: The Extending Zion Tradition and the Body that Carries It
