ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how three particular images from the Old Testament – Daughter Zion, Ark of the Covenant, and Burning Bush – have been utilized by mariophiles in supersessionist fashion. The upshot of this process has been both to devalue the Jewish sources of such imagery and to encourage Christians to believe that Mary was a Christian. In addition to appropriating "Zion" and "Israel" for their own purposes, some Christian theologians and scholars have taken the traditional Jewish notion "Daughter Zion" and applied it specifically to Mary. Marian organizations, too, continue to propagate a supersessionist version of Daughter Zion. For educated Christians, the identification of Mary as Daughter Zion is firm enough to be targeted with irony. The marian title Daughter Zion is a semiotic expropriation of a Jewish title. A marian chapel built on the site of a synagogue is both a physical and a semiotic expropriation of a Jewish place of worship.
