| Abstract: | "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"-- |
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