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Subject(s)

• Feminist theology [Browse]
• Bible Hosea—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Series

• Gender, culture, theory ; 10. [More in this series]
• Gender, culture, theory ; 10 [More in this series]
• Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 338

Summary note

Keefe's analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea's metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel's apostasy in a lurid 'fertility cult'. Against this reading, Keefe's study considers Hosea 1-2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an adulter

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-243) and indexes.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 FEMALE FORNICATION AND FERTILITY RELIGION; Chapter 3 THE FERTILITY CULT REVISITED; Chapter 4 COVENANT AND APOSTASY; Chapter 5 FEMINIST APPROACHES TO HOSEA; Chapter 6 WOMEN, SEX AND SOCIETY; Chapter 7 REREADING HOSEA'S FAMILY METAPHOR; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

ISBN

• 1-281-84191-9
• 9786611841911
• 0-567-51242-8

OCLC

• 286913596
• 893334189

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