Hosea 2
Subtitle: Metaphor and Rhetoric in Historical Perspective (Academia Biblica, No. 20) (Academia Biblica (Series) (Brill Academic Publishers))
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: December 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9789004146693
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Judaism; Syro-Ephraimitic War, ca. 734 B.C; Religion; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Rhetoric in the Bible; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Judaism - History; Metaphor in the Bible; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament
First sentence: The prophetic discourse in Hos 2 relies on a wealth of metaphorical imagery.