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Hosea: God’s Reconciliation with His Estranged Household is unavailable, but you can change that!

Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament features today’s top Old Testament scholars and brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Old Testament book, showing that how a biblical author...

mystery. The second part of Hosea’s theme is the estranged household of God. As Andrew Dearman has shown, the anthropological concept of the “household” draws together Hosea’s use of husband-wife and parent-child metaphors.81 The idea of a household also helps to highlight Hosea’s preference for kinship language over political terminology to describe YHWH’s familial relationship with Israel. However, I refine Dearman’s insights by extending the concept of YHWH’s patrimonial household of past and
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