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| Titre : | Hosea : A Commentary |
| Auteurs : | James Luther Mays, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 4th printing |
| Editeur : | Philadelphia [USA] : The Westminster Press, 1976 |
| Collection : | The Old Testament Library |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-664-20871-4 |
| Format : | x + 190 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Hosea, along with Amos, opens the period of the “Writing Prophets.” He is the only man called to the office of prophet who both lived and prophesied in the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
In Hosea’s speeches one can follow step by step the tragic course of folly and violence that marked the stages of Israel’s historical death. Hosea was a prophet whose words of doom foreran that death and interpreted it as the judgment of God. He was at the same time the herald of an unrequited love, a divine passion felt by God for his people, which sought for reconciliation and laid plans to make all things new for a people whose old life was nothing but failure. Essentially Hosea’s theology is a faith shaped by covenant between God and Israel and the traditions which that covenant created. History is of the greatest importance to him. But Israel’s history had been one of repeated unfaithfulness to God. Hosea sees Israel’s sin from the perspective of the covenant as different kinds of betrayal of God. For this betrayal, Hosea announces a judgment that corresponds to its character. The very blessings of fertility and prosperity the people hoped to get from their worship'of Baal will be removed from them. The institution of the monarchy upon which they founded their hopes of security will curse them with the very insecurity they feared. The surrounding national powers to whom they turn in search for salvation will become the instruments of their judgment. Severe and final as that judgment is, Hosea persists in seeing it as chastisement, as discipline, as the search of God for the repentance of his people. At the beginning and the end of his book there are words of eloquent and compelling faith that God’s inexorable love will found a new existence for his people. This commentary was written especially for The Old Testament Library. Preceding his verse-by-verse commentary. Dr. Mays gives the background of the Book of Hosea: Hosea, the man; the time; the sayings; the message; and contents of the book. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - Abbreviations - I. Introduction: 1. The man 2. The time 3. The sayings 4. The message 5. The book - Bibliography - II. Commentary |
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