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Grace Abounding: A Commentary on the Book of Hosea is unavailable, but you can change that!

Centering on the “knowledge of God” and the ultimate painful, paradoxical triumph of God’s grace, the book of Hosea is one of ambivalence and redemption. The redemptive message of Hosea is underscored by H. D. Beeby’s canonical and Christological interpretation. Beeby stresses that the true context of the book is much wider than the eighth century B.C.; Hosea must continually be heard against...

Two of the greatest prophets, Moses and Jeremiah, tried to evade their vocation. Even Isaiah allowed himself the gentle protest “How long”? Hosea, on the other hand, faced with the unthinkable demand that he should marry a harlot, and with the unbelievable message that God has a wife, makes no protest. He marries a harlot and builds his testimony around something that looks surprisingly like the horror he was destined to oppose: Yahweh with a bride—sexuality in the Godhead! What kind of harlot
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