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Hosea (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Hosea (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Readings - A New Biblical Commentary S.
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This reading of Hosea explores the book from a feminist,
psychoanalytical and poetic perspective. What is God doing with a
prostitute? How does the theme of prostitution relate to the
abjection of the woman as the other, and the fantasy of sexual
ecstasy, precisely because she escapes patriarchal order? Where is
the prophet situated in the dialectic of rage and desire that both
seduces and condemns Israel? His voice is both masculine and
feminine, and poetically embodies the sensuality of wayward Israel.
The ambiguity of voice is also that of the prophet's role, which is
both to nurture Israel, as on its Exodus from Egypt, and to be the
trap that destroys it. The problematic of voice and prophetic
function is evident in the vivid dissection of Israel's social
institutions, whose disintegration is inversely related to the
centrality of the discussion in the structure of the book, and in
the violent swings from despair to impossible hope. The focus on
immediate and uncontrollable entropy, manifest in extended tangled
metaphors, that occupies the centre of the book, is framed in the
outer chapters by intertextual references to Israel's primordial
vision, and the romantic distantiation of the Song of Songs, in
which the erotic and poetic contradictions of the book find their
perhaps ironic resolution.
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