Woman Zion, Out of Hand - A New Materialist Investigation of Zion's Movement

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.