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Hosea 11 and Metaphors of Identity, Relationship, and Core Values in Contexts of Trauma
Authors: Matheny Jennifer M. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Hosea 11:1–4 shifts the imagery from previous chapters from negative metaphors of marriage and infidelity to an intimate portrait of a parent and son. Israel is represented as Ephraim, and Yhwh is symbolized as a parental figure. Strong emotive language characterizes the relationship between Israel and Yhwh in significant ways, rarely attested in this fashion the Hebrew Bible. Hosea 11 provides several allusions to the exodus story, rooting Israel in their core identity as a covenant people. Hosea’s metaphors in ch. 11 critique, convict, and call Ephraim (Israel) back to their covenant relationship and faithful worship of Yhwh. The interplay of the imagery in Hos. 11 draws out the Neo-Assyrian context, which assists political-theological readings in connecting images, animal and people domains, and metaphors alluding to the Assyrian goddess Ishtar. This essay focuses especially on key relational and gendered metaphors to demonstrate how social scientific approaches, such as psychological hermeneutics (trauma studies and acceptance and commitment therapy) can offer beneficial voices within contemporary approaches.
Hosea 12–13 and Prophetic Composition, Rhetoric, and Recollection
Authors: Goldingay John 
Published: March 2024

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Hosea 12–13 is a compilation of prophetic messages that critique Israel for its treachery and waywardness, warn Israel of trouble that Yhwh will bring to it as a consequence, and recollect events from Israel’s story. Hosea makes systematic use of ambiguity, allusiveness, and paronomasia as he seeks to drive Israel to work out what his messages mean and imply. His recollections of events related in the Torah and Former Prophets also contribute to that agenda. It is not clear whether he would have known the Genesis story of Jacob in the form we have it, but this uncertainty does not inhibit comparison of his version and the Genesis version. Both are sparing in their judgments on a person such as Jacob, which contributes to the way Hosea makes the story a repository of ambiguity and allusiveness contributing to an encouragement of reflection and change on Israel’s part.
Kingship and Political Power in the Book of Hosea
Authors: Dewrell Heath D. 
Published: March 2024

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While Hosea may give the initial impression of being hostile to Israelite kings and kingship, a careful read of the book as a whole reveals a more nuanced view of Israelite kingship than one might expect. Israelite kingship is currently corrupt and ineffectual, to be sure. As a result, Yhwh will sweep it away, leave the Israelites with no native king of their own, to be ruled instead by the foreign king of Assyria. This is not the end of Israelite kingship, though. Rather, it is merely an intermediate step on the road to a restored kingship, in which a future Davidic king will rule the people of Judah and Israel together.
The Book of Hosea and the History of Eighth-Century BCE Israel
Authors: Hasegawa Shuichi 
Published: March 2024

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Based on biblical and extrabiblical texts, and archaeological data, the first part of this essay sketches the history of the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the late ninth and eighth centuries BCE. The superscription of the book of Hosea dates Hosea’s activities to the reign of Jeroboam II, who ruled in the early eighth century BCE. The kingdom saw a period of prosperity in the early eighth century BCE, but it suffered from repeated coups and Assyrian invasions in the latter part of the same century, and it was finally conquered and annexed by Assyria in 720 BCE. The second part of this essay examines the relationship between relevant passages from Hosea and the historical circumstances during the eighth century BCE. While those passages may reflect the historical situation of the Northern Kingdom at that time, some of them do not necessarily do so, especially when such historical association is made based only on biblical accounts. Figurative language in the passages makes it difficult to associate them with precise historical circumstances, of which we know little. The current texts are the results of Fortschreibung, which hinders identification of their historical settings.
Masculinity Studies and Hosea
Authors: Haddox Susan E. 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
As a central aspect of human identity, gender is significant not only for individuals but also for community status. A society’s construction of gender and gender relationships often embeds underlying power structures, so that gender comes to symbolize power and prestige in different spheres of influence. Masculist interpretation reveals the ways that gender pervades the rhetoric and assumptions of the texts without assuming that the male is the unreflective norm. Hosea was one of the earliest Hebrew Bible texts given a masculist interpretation and it has sustained the interest of interpreters. The types of approaches under the umbrella of masculinity studies are diverse. These include perspectives that draw from reader-response criticism, cultural anthropology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, cultural criticism, and queer theory. Interpreters have focused on masculinity as defined in terms of hegemonic masculinity, femininity, boyhood, and embodiment. Masculist interpretation focuses on the construction of masculinity and how the rhetoric of the text affects the male audience. Key questions include the definitions of masculinity, the way that masculinity is used in the text, issues of the masculine portrayal of God, and the effects on audiences past and present.
Queer Theory and Hosea
Authors: Williams Jennifer J. 
Published: March 2024

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This queer reading of Hosea asks, “What are the possible impacts on trans persons when reading the destabilized gender and character of Gomer as an eshet zenunim in the book of Hosea?” Taking into consideration the physical reality of trans folx, it is possible to read this woman as a transsexual sex worker and thus reveal hidden violence while eliciting understanding and empathy for the trans community. The metaphor of the eshet zenunim reveals a triply marginalized transbody who is both rejected and acquired. Such a queer reading of the book of Hosea aims to shift feminist and theoretical perspectives, raising awareness of the violence experienced by the trans community.
Hosea in the New Testament
Authors: Moyise Steve 
Published: March 2024

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Each of the six explicit quotations of Hosea in the New Testament are discussed in terms of the text of the quotation, its purpose in the new work, and the type of exegesis used to apply it to its new situation. Attention is also given to some of the allusions to the book, as well as its imagery, particularly the idea of God as husband to Israel and idolatry referred to as prostitution. Opinions vary as to how much the New Testament authors were interested in the original context of their citations, but this study does highlight the “semantic potential” of the text, and in a few cases, may contribute to discussions of Hosea’s original meaning.
Hosea in Popular Culture
Authors: Gravett Emily O. 
Published: March 2024

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The book of Hosea’s influence on later works is small compared to other biblical books. But Hosea and his life, especially his commanded marriage to his wife of whoredom/harlotry, Gomer-bat-Diblaim, makes a surprising number of appearances in postbiblical popular (or “pop”) culture, especially by and for Christians. This essay focuses on some of the more sustained and explicit engagements with Hosea across novels, films, and even music. Through the ways they reimagine and retell the biblical text, these instances of pop culture provide commentary and illumination of the original, biblical story. In particular, the figure of Gomer gets further or redeveloped in contemporary mediums—with a backstory, a family, friends, a personality, and beauty. We may gain newfound understanding, even sympathy, for her character after interacting with the pop-culture interpretations. By making their inspiration clear and by creating links to the biblical text, pop-culture creators open the possibility of comparison—and of a dynamic dialogue between the two worlds.
The Book of Hosea and Israelite Religion in the Eighth Century BCE
Authors: Tiemeyer Lena-Sofia 
Published: March 2024

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This essay discusses the religion of ancient Israel, with a focus on how it is portrayed in the book of Hosea. In dialogue with the Ugaritic Baal Cycle, as well as biblical and epigraphic onomastic evidence, it maintains that the polemic against Baal and El in Hosea predominantly concerns Israel’s understanding of Yhwh. In this debate, Hosea and the people of Israel speak at cross purposes. The prophet accuses the people of worshipping Yhwh incorrectly, while the people defend the orthodoxy of their cult of Yhwh. Hosea’s polemic against Israel is twofold. In Hos. 2, Hosea claims that Israel must learn to use God’s personal name, Yhwh, and to comprehend the depth of their covenant relationship. In Hos. 8:5–6 and 13:1–2, as well as 9:10 and 11:2, Hosea maintains that people must reevaluate their current understanding of history and to realize that the God of their ancestors, who interacted with the patriarchs and later led the people out of Egypt, should be called by his specific name, Yhwh.
Transformation and Reinterpretation in the Composition and Redaction of Hosea
Authors: Rudnig-Zelt Susanne 
Published: March 2024

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This essay studies the development of redaction criticism on Hosea. It starts with Jörg Jeremias’s groundbreaking new perspective in the 1980s. Jeremias recognized the influence of redactors on the text they transmitted, though for Jeremias these redactors were very close to the historical prophet. This has changed in the last forty years. Many now claim that the origins of the book have nothing to do with prophetic activity as it usually appears in the Hebrew Bible. Since the book of Hosea as it now stands has some elements in common with prophetic books like Jeremiah, the redactors behind the book are likely responsible for at least one deep transformation of the transmitted texts (e.g., from laments to accusations). The textual difficulty of Hosea also suggests that there has been more than one such transformation. This essay discusses several ways to reconstruct these transformations and proposes new explanations for the similarities among Hosea, Jeremiah, and Deuteronomistic Theology.
Domination in Majoritarian Democracy
Authors: Ingham Sean 
Published: March 2024

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A common intuition about the ‘tyranny of the majority’ would appear to conflict with the republican thesis that a group’s unconstrained power is dominating even if the group does not care to exercise it. It is commonly assumed that a majoritarian democracy, in which there are no institutional constraints on the power of majorities to impose their preferences, endangers the freedom of vulnerable minorities in particular—such as an historically marginalized ethnic minority—rather than everyone’s freedom equally. But if, as republicans claim, a citizen’s freedom is independent of whether majorities wish to exercise their power, then it is unclear why pure majoritarianism would pose any special danger to the freedom of those who are likely to find themselves on the losing side, beyond the generalized danger it poses to everyone, equally. The present chapter explains how republicans can meet this challenge. Majoritarian democracy can produce an asymmetrical pattern of domination, where just one subset of the population (e.g. the ethnic majority) dominates everyone else, as a consequence of the mechanisms by which social norms structure public deliberation and both facilitate and constrain collective action.
The European Union
Authors: d’Argent Pierre 
Published: March 2024

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The foundational paradox, or ontological mystery, of EU law is that it owes its existence to, and stems from, the most traditional instruments of international law between sovereign States (i.e. treaties), but that, at the same time, it intends to separate itself from international law by choosing the conditions under which it accepts interaction with the international legal order that gives validity to the TEU and TFEU. Moreover, EU law is all about (1) replacing domestic law with EU law within each Member State, (2) replacing international law with EU law between the Member States and, as a result of both, (3) replacing the Member States as subjects of international law by the EU itself vis-à-vis the rest of the world. Phrased differently, the emergence and development of EU law is an experiment in juridical novatio of legal orders and subjects.
Semiotic object relations theory (SORT) as the basic CAT theory?
Authors: Leiman Mikael 
Published: March 2024

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The chapter explores the concept of semiotic object relations theory (SORT), which was originally formulated by Anthony Ryle in 2002. To develop this theory, it was necessary to present two conceptual modifications to the original procedural sequence model (PSM). The chapter presents the concept of object-directed activity and a revised concept of the sign as the building blocks of the SORT. It goes on to discuss the relationship between this conception and standard CAT theory. It is suggested that the SORT operates as a metatheory, providing a broad explanatory frame without necessitating radical changes in the current concepts or clinical practices.
The evolving CAT model and its current core features
Authors: Kerr Ian B. , Beard Hilary 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
The current cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) model represents the outcome of a process of evolution up to its initial articulation several decades ago and ongoing over the years since. Created by Anthony Ryle through his remarkable, creative, and humanistic efforts to integrate the valid and effective elements of then prevalent models, notably psychoanalysis and early cognitive psychology, it also represented a socially responsible effort to offer ‘good enough’ treatments to the many people in the population with mental health problems. This integrative impulse has been maintained, increasingly assisted by others, along with an increasing diversity in its applications. Notable developments include insights from Vygotskian activity theory and Bakhtinian notions of a dialogic self, introduced by Mikael Leiman, and insights from infant psychology, stressing the actively intersubjective, relational, meaning-making, and fundamentally social character of human psychology and of the ‘Self’. Further evolving applications include use as an individual therapy for a widening range of presentations, to inform group, team, and systemic work, including generic supervision and reflective practice, and beyond into overtly socio-political debate. Ryle, whose own theoretical views had evolved considerably over the years, certainly welcomed these various developments seeing them as necessary to the vitality and validity of the model. CAT practitioners will need to continue in future to respond ‘integratively’ to emerging evidence from a range of disciplines, including understandings of the ‘equivalence paradox’ in relation to treatment outcomes. We will aim here to review this evolution of CAT, its current core features, and some of their implications.
CAT within adult mental health inpatient settings
Authors: Cavieres Marisol , Tan Ranil 
Published: March 2024

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Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) can be used to both understand the inpatient context as well as inform direct work with service users. In particular, the multiple self states model (MSSM) can provide a framework for supporting an ‘observing eye/I’ within inpatient units. At each level, there is scope to consider how the inpatient context (including responses of the staff team, the inpatient environment and wider systemic/organizational factors) may be reinforcing problematic procedures, fragmentation, and reducing or inhibiting reflective practice. This chapter describes how CAT has been adapted within two different inpatient settings; as a brief individual intervention within an acute inpatient unit, and within a specialist inpatient setting where CAT was used as an overarching clinical model. A framework with suggested guidelines for this work is offered. Whilst data from service evaluation presented lends support for this way of working, there is a clear need to develop the evidence base in this area.
Embodiment as a relational resource in CAT when working with developmental trauma
Authors: Sheard Tim 
Published: March 2024

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The focus in this chapter is on the inclusion of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) therapists’ own embodiment as a potentially crucial relational resource when working with developmental trauma. This approach may support and enhance relational engagement and integration through enabling CAT therapists to feel more relationally resourced, safe, contained, and regulated, offer a robust and resilient relational presence for clients to engage with that is boundaried, empathic and attuned, reduce the burdening, exhaustion and physical symptoms associated with this work (a largely unrecognized form of collusive reciprocation), and enhance awareness of reciprocal roles within sessions. Embodiment for therapists may mediate more direct engagement self to self, live in session with clients and so strengthen the opening and holding of therapeutic space. It is argued that embodiment can mediate relational integration in a way that both supports and is complementary to the use in CAT of mediating ‘tools’, joint reflection, and the observing eye.
Developing relational reflective practice for individuals and teams
Authors: Jones Lindsay , Annesley Phyllis 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter the authors describe the 4Ps model, a tool for reflective practice drawing on cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) concepts. This model was developed to provide an accessible framework to enable mental health practitioners and teams to understand and reflect on their therapeutic relationships with service users. This supports staff in responding effectively and compassionately, reducing the likelihood of reactive responses that can re-enact traumatic experiences. The authors start by describing the rationale for why relationally informed reflective practice is important, including a brief review of current models of reflective practice. The authors then go on to describe the 4Ps model and illustrate how it can be used to support personal reflection and group reflective practice. The authors also discuss how the 4Ps can be used ‘in the moment’ when faced with challenging interpersonal situations. An anonymized case study is presented. The authors briefly explore the barriers to reflective practice and provide suggestions of how these might be overcome. Finally, the authors make some recommendations for further development of the 4Ps model.
Future developments and challenges for the current CAT model
Authors: Kerr Ian B. , Beard Hilary 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) represents a mature model of mental distress and ‘disorder’, with a wide range of therapeutic and other applications. However, articulating any fully comprehensive and coherent model will continue to be extremely problematic given the epistemologically diverse, constituent domains of mental distress and disorder. This implies the need to integrate emerging evidence from a range of sources, from genetics through to developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology and psychiatry, political economy, and studies of process and outcome in clinical research. Much of this evidence, including what exactly constitutes mental distress and disorder, or key change processes, is still poorly conceptualized and/or contentious. It also raises questions about effective ‘treatments’ or ‘interventions’, about research, about what constitutes an ‘evidence base’, about therapy trainings, and about assessments of ‘competence’ or ‘adherence’. CAT practitioners will need to keep integrating, like Tony Ryle, and aspire, the authors argue, to transcend ‘brand name’ or ‘panacea’-type models of therapy and move towards ‘effective psychotherapy’. The authors argue also that the current CAT framework, with its predominantly relational focus and (genuinely) collaborative ‘whole person, whole context’ approach, offers a good, reasonably comprehensive, and scientific basis for further integration, including of emerging understandings of the ‘equivalence paradox’ for treatment outcomes. However, many challenges prevail in addressing mental distress and disorder, not all purely scientific. Partisan and vested interests, sometimes overtly commercial, as well as socio-political context, play important roles. An important role, in turn, for CAT and its practitioners may be to attempt to influence psychologically toxic socio-political systems.
Succession in Authoritarian Regimes
Authors: Kokkonen Andrej , Møller Jørgen , Sundell Anders 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter focuses on the politics of succession in authoritarian regimes. Historically, succession wars regularly rattled monarchies, where power was gathered in the hands of one person, and many authoritarian regimes today are also destabilized during moments of leadership succession. This is due to the perennial problem of authoritarian succession. First, the chapter discusses why the transfer of power is so problematic in an authoritarian context and highlights the trade-offs autocrats face when trying to address the problem. Second, it addresses how authoritarian regimes have tried to balance these trade-offs throughout history and shows how these regimes can be categorized according to their mode of succession. Third, it considers how leadership successions and succession arrangements affect political stability, including coups and civil war. One area where democracies outshine their authoritarian counterparts is thus in their generally peaceful management of succession to high office over extended periods of time. The chapter ends by identifying promising venues for future research on authoritarian succession.
Acetylation of transcription factor BpTCP20 by acetyltransferase BpPDCE23 modulates salt tolerance in birch
Authors: Liu Zhujun , Shi Xinxin , Wang Zhibo , Qu Ming , Gao Caiqiu , Wang Chao , Wang Yucheng 
Published: March 2024

Abstract
Teosinte branched 1/Cycloidea/Proliferating cell factor (TCP) transcription factors function in abiotic stress responses. However, how TCPs confer salt tolerance is unclear. Here, we characterized a TCP transcription factor, BpTCP20, that responds to salt stress in birch (Betula platyphylla Suk). Plants overexpressing BpTCP20 displayed increased salt tolerance, and Bptcp20 knockout mutants displayed reduced salt tolerance relative to the wild-type (WT) birch. BpTCP20 conferred salt tolerance by mediating stomatal closure and reducing reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing showed that BpTCP20 binds to NeuroD1, T-box, and two unknown elements (termed TBS1 and TBS2) to regulate target genes. In birch, salt stress led to acetylation of BpTCP20 acetylation at lysine 259. A mutated BpTCP20 variant (abolished for acetylation, termed BpTCP20259) was overexpressed in birch, which led to decreased salt tolerance compared with plants overexpressing BpTCP20. However, BpTCP20259-overexpressing plants still displayed increased salt tolerance relative to untransformed WT plants. BpTCP20259 showed reduced binding to the promoters of target genes and decreased target gene activation, leading to decreased salt tolerance. In addition, we identified dihydrolipoyllysine-residue acetyltransferase component of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (BpPDCE23), an acetyltransferase that interacts with and acetylates BpTCP20 to enhance its binding to DNA motifs. Together, these results suggest that BpTCP20 is a transcriptional regulator of salt tolerance, whose activity is modulated by BpPDCE23-mediated acetylation.