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(Paperback)
By: Alice A. Keefe
ISBN: 9781841272856
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This analysis of Hosea dismantles the androcentric and theological assumptions of the book's dominant reading. Instead, Hosea's symbol of Israel as an adulterous woman is read as a commentary on the structural violence in Israelite society which accompanied the 8th century boom in "agribusiness".
