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Questions:
1. Who is speaking/narrating chapters one and two? Three through five?
2. How is the city of Jerusalem, Zion, represented in terms of gender?
3. What is the imagined relationship between Jerusalem/Zion and God?
4. In your opinion, what is the nadir (the "rock bottom") representation of the situation of Jerusalem/Zion?
5. How and why does the narrator's gender switch in chapter 3?
6. What is the role of personification in this depiction of disaster? How and why is it effective?
7. How is the enemy depicted? What are the terms in which God is depicted? How is this related to the history of the trope of the conquerer/conquered in the Tanakh? How are animals used in this depiction?
8. Is there hope for Israel?
9. What does the feminine figuration of Israel as the unfaithful wife of God have to do with the gendered portrayal of the Covenant in the later prophets?
10. With whom, if anyone, is the reader meant to sympathize? Identify?