Grapes in the Desert Metaphors, Models, and Themes in Hosea 4-14

includes index and biblioraphy

points of departure Hosea: Genre and composition................................. 3 The merits and limits of genre classifications....................... 3 Genre analysis and the hook of Hosea....................5 Hosea 4-14 as a literary composition..................... 8 Hosea 4-14: Contexts and inter-texts................. ..... 1 1 Interpretation as contextualization.......... 11 Contexts for Hosea 4-14..................................... 12 Inter-texts for Hosea 4-14................................... 16 Metaphor: Theoretical perspectives.......................... 19 Modem metaphor theory: A survey...................... 19 Int rcxluction............................. 1 9 The interaction theory: Richards and Black..................................... 20 Some approaches related to the interaction theory............................ 22 Kittay`s perspective! theory.......................................................... 24 Metaphor: Identification and interpretation........................ 26 Metaphorical and literal language.................................. 26 On the identification of metaphorical utterances.............................. 27 Other forms of non-literal usage................. 30 On the interpretation of metaphorical utterances.............................. 32 Novel, conventional, and lexicalized metaphors...............................34 Problems posed by biblical metaphors............................................34 Metaphors and models..................................... 36 Models and root metaphors................................ 36 The role of models in biblical interpretation............... 38 Discourse metaphorics: The role of themes....................................... 39 The text as metaphor................................ 39 The metaphorical potential of themes.............................................40 metaphor theory and the Hebrew Bible: A survey...... ................ ...........42 metaphors in Hosea: Methodology.................47 analysis ok hosea 4-14 controversy and catastrophe: Hos 4:1-5:7............. .51 wars, wounds, and words of hope: Hos 5:8-6:6. ........ ...78 Metaphors in the text........................ Metaphors in 5:8-14.................. Metaphors in 5:15..................... Metaphors in 6:1-6.................... Models and themes in Hos 5:8-6:6.. destructive desires: Hos 6:7-7:16............ Introduction...................................... Metaphors in the text........................ Models and themes in Hos 6:7-7:16............................................. 122 an end to all endeavours: Hos 8:1-9:9........................... 125 Introduction..................... 125 Metaphors in the text......................... 127 Metaphors in 8:1-14.......................... 127 Is and themes in Hos 8:1-9:9................................................. 144 Strange fruits: Hos 9:10-10:15. ................................. ... .147 Metaphors in the text............................ 148 Metaphors in 9:10-17.................... 148 Metaphors in 10:1-8... Metaphors in 10:9-15................ Personification and victimi/ation.................................................... 226 redescribing reationality: Models in Hosea 4-14................................ 229 79Q Dominant models............................................................................ From hierarchy to reciprocity.......................................................... 232 The polemical potential............... .................. Discourse dynamics: Themes in Hosea 4-14.......... 236 The creation of coherence................................................................ 236 The narrative dimension.................................................................. 237 The rhetoric of reversal.................................................................... 240 Patterns in the textual world................ .