Reading Hosea in Achaemenid Yehud
Reading Hosea in Achaemenid Yehud

Author: James M. Trotter

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0567226123

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An examination of the final form of Hosea within the socio-historical context of Persian period Judah, making use of insights from historical-critical and reader-oriented perspectives. The amalgamation of these two seemingly divergent approaches creates a framework within which the setting and interpretive practices of both the modern critic and the ancient reader(s) can be taken seriously. The resulting examination proposes a reading of Hosea shaped, as far as possible, by the reading conventions and socio-religious concerns of Persian period Judahites.

Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play
Poets, Prophets, and Texts in Play

Author: Ehud Ben Zvi

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0567295311

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In this volume, a list of esteemed scholars engage with the literary readings of prophetic and poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible that revolve around sensitivity to the complexity of language, the fragility of meaning, and the interplay of texts. These themes are discussed using a variety of hermeneutical strategies. In Part 1, Poets and Poetry, some essays address the nature of poetic language itself, while others play with themes of love, beauty, and nature in specific poetic texts. The essays in Part 2, Prophets and Prophecy, consider prophets and prophecy from a number of interpretive directions, moving from internal literary analysis to the reception of these texts and their imagery in a range of ancient and modern contexts. Those in Part 3, on the other hand, Texts in Play, take more recent works (from Shakespeare to Tove Jansson's Moomin books for children) as their point of departure, developing conversations between texts across the centuries that enrich the readings of both the ancient and modern pieces of literature.

Reconsidering the Date and Provenance of the Book of Hosea
Reconsidering the Date and Provenance of the Book of Hosea

Author: James M. Bos

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0567068897

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This study argues that the book of Hosea ought to be understood and read as a text that was composed in Persian-period Yehud rather than in eight-century Israel. The author challenges the traditional scholarship and emphasizes that there is the evidence to suggest that the book should be viewed as a Judahite text - a book that was composed in the late sixth or early fifth century B.C.E. Bos provides an overview of the state of prophetic research, as well as a discussion of genre and the generation of prophetic books, linguistic dating and provenance; and a survey of Hosea research. Bos discusses various aspects of the book of Hosea that aim to prove his argument the book was composed in Persian-period Yehud - the anti-monarchical ideology of the book, the dual theme of 'Exile' and 'Return' which is consistent with the discourse found in other Judahite books dating to the sixth century; and the historiographical traditions.

Prophecy and Apocalyptic
Prophecy and Apocalyptic

Author: D. Brent Sandy

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0801026016

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A current and accessible guide to the literature on Old Testament prophecy.

Hosea’s God
Hosea’s God

Author: Mason D. Lancaster

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2023-08-11

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1628375418

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The book of Hosea is a labyrinth of juxtaposed images for God and God’s people, with such disparate metaphors as God the devouring lion and God the reviving dew. In Hosea’s God: A Metaphorical Theology, Mason D. Lancaster demonstrates that recent advances in metaphor theory help untangle these divergent portrayals of God. He analyzes fifteen metaphor clusters in Hosea 4–14 individually, then discerns patterns and reversals between the clusters. Finally, respecting the ancient value for emphasizing individual aspects of a depiction over a homogenized picture of the whole, the book identifies five characteristics of God prominent among the metaphors of Hosea. Based on this analysis, Lancaster asserts that Hosea’s metaphorical depiction of Yahweh ultimately derives from the primacy of Yahweh’s fidelity to Israel.

Hosea
Hosea

Author: Ehud Ben Zvi

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780802807953

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Ben Zvi's Hosea features a comprehensive introduction and careful commentary with special attention to themes of exile and restoration, as well as extended discussion of didactic prophetic readings.

Hosea
Hosea

Author: Bo H Lim

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2015-10-21

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1467443972

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In this commentary Old Testament scholar Bo Lim and theologian Daniel Castelo work together to help the church recover, read, and proclaim the prophetic book of Hosea in a way that is both faithful to its message and relevant to our contemporary context. Though the book of Hosea is rich with imagery and metaphor that can be difficult to interpret, Lim and Castelo show that, with its focus on corporate and structural sin, Hosea contains a critically important message for today’s church.

Reconsidering the Book of the Four
Reconsidering the Book of the Four

Author: Nicholas R. Werse

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 3110650266

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Although many scholars recognize literary similarities between Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zephaniah, defining the compositional relationship between these texts remains a matter of debate. Following the scholarly trajectory of exploring the compositional relationship between the Twelve prophets, several scholars argue that these four prophetic texts formed a precursory collection to the Book of the Twelve. Yet even among advocates for this ‘Book of the Four’ there remain differences in defining the form and function of the collection. By reexamining the literary parallels between these texts, Werse shows how different methodological convictions have led to the diverse composition models in the field today. Through careful consideration of emerging insights in the study of deuteronomism and scribalism, Werse provides an innovative composition model explaining how these four texts came to function as a collection in the wake of the traumatic destruction of Jerusalem. This volume explores a historic function of these prophetic voices by examining the editorial process that drew them together.

Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud
Social Memory among the Literati of Yehud

Author: Ehud Ben Zvi

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-07-22

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 3110547147

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Ehud Ben Zvi has been at the forefront of exploring how the study of social memory contributes to our understanding of the intellectual worldof the literati of the early Second Temple period and their textual repertoire. Many of his studies on the matter and several new relevant works are here collected together providing a very useful resource for furthering research and teaching in this area. The essays included here address, inter alia, prophets as sites of memory, kings as sites memory, Jerusalem as a site of memory, a mnemonic system shaped by two interacting ‘national’ histories, matters of identity and othering as framed and explored via memories, mnemonic metanarratives making sense of the past and serving various didactic purposes and their problems, memories of past and futures events shared by the literati, issues of gender constructions and memory, memories understood by the group as ‘counterfactual’ and their importance, and, in multiple ways, how and why shared memories served as a (safe) playground for exploring multiple, central ideological issues within the group and of generative grammars governing systemic preferences and dis-preferences for particular memories.

Hosea, Joel, and Amos
Hosea, Joel, and Amos

Author: Graham R. Hamborg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1108482384

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This commentary offers a timely and up to date assessment of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos, and shares the best of contemporary Old Testament scholarship in non-technical language and an accessible style. It enables an appreciation of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos as literary texts with continuing theological value.