Details

Subject(s)

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

Editor

• Kelle, Brad E., 1973- [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Oxford Handbook of Hosea offers 32 essays on the Hebrew Bible prophetic book of Hosea. Following an introductory essay examining the relevance of the study of Hosea, the essays are organized around five nodes: 1, History, Text, and Composition; 2, Key Texts: Established and Emerging Perspectives; 3, Theological and Literary Elements, Themes, and Motifs; and 4, Interpretive Theories and Approaches; and 5, Reception. Each essay examines how its topic has been and is treated within scholarship on the book of Hosea. The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the text at hand. Special attention is paid to elements of metaphor, gender, and violence in the book and its interpretation. The contributions range from text-critical and dialectical issues to ancient historiography, compositional history, religious history, metaphors, feminism, womanism, postcolonialism, masculinity, queer theory, ecology, and reception-among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to assessing and interpreting this particular biblical book"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2024.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 15, 2024).

Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Does (and Should) Hosea Matter Still?
• Part I: History, Text, and Composition
• 2. The Book of Hosea and the History of Eighth-Century BCE Israel
• 3. Assyria and Its Image in Hosea
• 4. Hosea the "Historical Prophet" of the Eighth Century BCE, Hosea the Remembered Prophet of Yehudite Literati, and the Book of Hosea
• 5. The Book of Hosea and Israelite Religion in the Eighth Century BCE
• 6. The Book of Hosea and the Socioeconomic Conditions of Eighth-Century BCE Israel
• 7. Transformation and Reinterpretation in the Composition and Redaction of Hosea
• 8. The Book of Hosea and Northern/Israelian Hebrew
• 9. Texts and Versions of the Book of Hosea
• 10. Hosea in the Book of the Twelve
• Part II: Key Texts: Established and Emerging Perspectives
• 11. Hosea 1-3, the Marriage Metaphor, and the Ties That Bind
• 12. Hosea 5:8-6:6, Alt's Hypothesis, and New Possibilities
• 13. Hosea 7-8 and the Critique of Kings, Politics, and Power
• 14. Hosea 11 and Metaphors of Identity, Relationship, and Core Values in Contexts of Trauma
• 15. Hosea 12-13 and Prophetic Composition, Rhetoric, and Recollection
• Part III: Theological and Literary Elements, Themes, and Motifs
• 16. Metaphors in the Book of Hosea
• 17. Intertextuality and Traditions in the Book of Hosea
• 18. God's Character in the Book of Hosea
• 19. Kingship and Political Power in the Book of Hosea
• 20. Sin and Punishment in the Book of Hosea
• 21. Repentance in the Book of Hosea
• 22. Gender and Sexual Violence in Hosea
• Part IV: Interpretive Theories and Approaches
• 23. Hosea in Feminist and Womanist Interpretation
• 24. Masculinity Studies and Hosea
• 25. Queer Theory and Hosea
• 26. Postcolonialism as a Methodological Approach to Hosea
• 27. Prolegomena to the Ecological Interpretation of Hosea
• Part V: Reception
• 28. Hosea in Rabbinic Literature
• 29. Hosea in the New Testament
• 30. Hosea in Popular Culture
• 31. The Ghost of Hosea in African American Interpretation
• 32. Hosea in Asia-Centric Interpretation
• Ancient Sources Index
• Author Index

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of Hosea
• Hosea

ISBN

• 9780197639627 (ebook)
• 9780197639603
• 9780197639610

OCLC

1417317946

Doi

• 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197639597.001.0001

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