By Yvonne M. Sherwood
ISBN-10: 1850755817
ISBN-13: 9781850755814
The single consensus that has been reached on Hosea 1-3 is that it's a notoriously 'problematic' textual content. Sherwood unpicks this relatively imprecise assertion by means of interpreting the actual complexities of the textual content and frictions among the textual content and reader that conspire to supply any such disorientating influence. 4 dimensions of the 'problem' are thought of: the clash among textual content and reader over the 'improper' courting among Hosea and Gomer; the weird prophetic sign-language that conscripts humans right into a cosmic charade; the text's propensity to subvert its crucial theses; and the emergent tensions among the feminist reader and the textual content. Aiming to assemble literary feedback and biblical scholarship, this e-book presents lucid introductions to ideological feedback, semiotics, deconstruction and feminist feedback, and appears on the implications of those techniques not just for the e-book of Hosea yet for bible study in most cases.
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Whenever Gomer or intercourse are mentioned, he reacts with an instant reiteration of the dream framework. '120 From Ibn Ezra's perspective, the dream serves the dual purpose of retaining the prophet's integrity (he did not lie, the events are not false), but of denying the literal truth of the account. Yet despite his attempts to delineate between allegory and dream, the difference between Ibn Ezra's 'dream vision' and allegory, or a 'description of a subject under the guise of some other subject' (OED) seems purely one of definition.
95 If metacommentary is an attempt to locate, through the 'glance that designates in the process of avoiding', the 'object forbidden', it is not difficult to see from commentators' embarrassed glances in the opposite direction that the taboo object in this text is the C-KT nft*. In the next two sections, which examine older and then more contemporary strategies for coping with the difficult woman, I want to look at how commentators restyle Gomer-bat-Diblayim, specifically by improving, or by removing her.
129. Luther, Lectures on the Minor Prophets, p. 3. 130. Luther, Lectures on the Minor Prophets, pp. 3-4 (my italics). 131. Calvin, Hosea, p. 48. 1. The Strange Case of the Missing Prostitute 53 disposing of the undesirable woman. Anxious to consign harlotry to the realm of the imagination, he constantly reiterates that his peculiar drama bears no resemblance to any persons, living or dead. 133 As in Ibn Ezra's account, it is at the moments of conception and birth that assurances that this is only a staged analogy come thick and fast.
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