the anchor yale bible

HOSEA

a new translation with introduction and commentary

by

FRANCIS I. ANDERSEN

AND

DAVID NOEL FREEDMAN

VOLUME 24

the anchor yale bible

The Anchor Bible

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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1980 by Doubleday.

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Bible O.T. Hosea. English

Andersen-Freedman. 1980.

Hosea, a new translation with introduction and commentary.

(The Anchor Bible; v. 24)

Bibliography:

Includes index.

1. Bible. O.T. Hosea—Commentaries.

1. Andersen, Francis I., 1925– II. Freedman,

David Noel, 1922– III. Title.

IV. Series: Anchor Bible: v. 24

BS192.2.A1 1964.G3 vol. 24 [BS1565.3]

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Copyright © 1980 by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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First trade paperback edition published 2004

ISBN 978-0-300-13969-3

To the Memory

of our teacher

William Foxwell Albright

PREFACE

This is the first of five volumes on the Book of the Twelve Prophets and with the companion, second volume of the group, on Amos and Micah, has been underway for a decade. Andersen will write two further volumes with six further minor prophets: Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah in the first; and, in the second, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. Carol and Eric Meyers of Duke University are preparing a commentary on Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

We began work on these volumes while we were members of the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, Andersen serving on the faculty of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Freedman on the faculty of San Francisco Theological Seminary. We continued to collaborate by correspondence and during periods of study at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem, and at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. We acknowledge the support of these institutions, and of Macquarie University, where Andersen now teaches; the Australian Institute of Archaeology for aid to Andersen; and the American Council of Learned Societies, for aid to Freedman.

Scholarly succor has been abundant. Freedman has several times discussed Hosea with the members of the Biblical Colloquium, whom he thanks; and Andersen has profited from collaboration with Dean Forbes, of Palo Alto, California, in computer studies of the Hebrew Bible. Leona Running, of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, typed the manuscript with the competence only a Semitist could bring to bear. M. O’Connor, of Doubleday and The University of Michigan, edited the manuscript and made an honest effort not to be hedged in with thorn-bushes and walled in with a wall (Hos 2:8).