{"product_id":"woman-zion-out-of-hand-a-new-materialist-investigation-of-zions-movement-hardcover","title":"Woman Zion, Out of Hand: A New Materialist Investigation of Zion's Movement - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCindy Dawson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003ethe ability to intra-act\u003c\/em\u003e, to act upon and be acted upon by the world around it. Agency is not limited by some\u003cem\u003ething\u003c\/em\u003e (i.e., \"intention\" or \"will\") that some\u003cem\u003eone\u003c\/em\u003e (i.e., a human) possesses but simply by some ability to enact change, an ability possessed by humans and nonhumans alike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWoman 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 \u003cem\u003ebecomes\u003c\/em\u003e the new form.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCindy Dawson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lecturer at the University of Houston. Her work focuses on the personification of the city of Jerusalem in biblical and Early Jewish texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45450503684175,"sku":"9780197817223","price":176.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/EJT765uGua9780197817223.webp?v=1780494967","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/woman-zion-out-of-hand-a-new-materialist-investigation-of-zions-movement-hardcover","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}