Woman’s Body and the Social Body in Hosea
Alice A. Keefe
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Supplement Series 338
Gender, Culture, Theory 10
Dedicated with much love and gratitude to my parents, Ann and John Keefe
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About Woman’s Body and the Social Body in HoseaKeefe’s analysis dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions which have determined the dominant reading of Hosea’s metaphor of Israel as the adulterous wife of God. It shows how the projection of symbolic associations of women with nature, sexual temptation and sin have anachronistically determined this metaphor as referring to Israel’s apostasy in a lurid “fertility cult”. Against this reading, Keefe’s study considers Hosea 1–2 in the context of the association of sexual transgression and social violence in biblical literature; in this light, Hosea’s symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary upon the structural violence in Israelite society which accompanied the eighth century boom in “agribusiness” and attendant processes of land consolidation. |
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