2. The double use of exile (glh) in verses 21–22 inescapably must be taken as an allusion to 6th-century exile, surely the defining lived reality of Old Testament Israel.9 There is now great uneasiness about the term “exile” among those scholars who do ideology-critique because, it is said, the term is not historically accurate but is a self-serving ideological mantra among a small party of elites.10 Perhaps; but it is difficult to imagine this nameless woman among such elites. In any case, this
Page 12