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The prophet Hosea lived through the tumultuous final decades of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The Assyrian invasion culminated in the destruction of Samaria, the end of the Northern Kingdom, and the exile of many of its people. Hosea called the people to faith in God through warnings of judgment and promises of hope. He exposed the people’s infidelity as they turned to other nations, to their...

view has found many advocates in the modern period, cultic activity here regarded as an inferior form of religion (Rudolph 1966: 140), or is here replaced by an ‘ethical monotheism’ (Wellhausen 1885: 474–475); the text offers a ‘prophetic radicalism against the cult’ (Mays 1969: 98). But such a reading can be maintained only by ignoring the rhetorical device. Heinz Kruse called the technique ‘dialectical negation’ (Kruse 1954; cf. Du Toit 1986). One denies something absolutely in order to relativize
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