This comprehensive examination of the Syriac Peshitta of Hosea (P-Hosea) is the first study of the Peshitta conducted via insights and methods from the discipline of Translation Studies. It uses in particular Andrew Chesterman's Causal Model and Gideon Toury's descriptive approa…
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This is an analysis of the Pesh text of Hosea. This dissertation looks at the Syriac Peshitta text of Hosea in three ways: Text critically, exegetically, and in terms of translation technique. The first task is to determine what variations from the MT in the Peshitta of Hosea ar…
Using critical theological and exegetical methodologies with philosophical considerations, this dissertation will present a Biblical foundation, from the Book of Hosea, for the withdrawing of Divine Presence as an occasion for human suffering. In reverse, the Book of Hosea will …
While the relationship between Yahweh and El has been discussed at great lengths over the years, this dissertation attempts to shed new light on this discussion in several areas. While the prophet Hosea has been traditionally associated with the polemic against Baal, I have atte…
Contemporary scholars generally translate the Hebrew stem znh as “prostitute” or “cultic prostitute” and understand it as a metaphor for Israel's alleged apostasy. However prostitution in the Biblical texts is neither punished nor censured making this a weak metaphor for prophet…
This dissertation investigates a theological understanding of divine love in Hosea 11. The first focal point of this research is to explore the theological understanding of divine love in Hosea 11, focusing on the interpretation of the parental metaphor. The second focal point o…
The metaphors in Hosea are rich and varied, relating to gendered and non-gendered image fields, including female, male, parent-child, sickness and healing, hunting, animal, agriculture, plant, and natural phenomena. This study looks at the rhetorical use of metaphor in Hosea thr…
This dissertation reexamines Matthew's use of Hosea 11:1 (2:15). Chapter 1 offers a summary and critique of important works on the subject and introduces those questions that are common to the debate surrounding this passage. Chapter 2 is entirely devoted to the hermeneutical de…
This thesis situates Hosea within the religious traditions of Israel and Judah. A comparative method is used to identify some of the differences and similarities Hosea shares with other Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern texts. The goal is to gain a better understanding of Hosea …
This dissertation is an analysis of the literary structure of the Book of Hosea. It demonstrates that the prophetic speech types or literary forms and its numerous rhetorical devices are woven together into successively developing rhetorical units that effectively present Hosea'…
Traditionally scholarship has viewed the book of Hosea as originating in eighth-century Israel before being taken to Judah, where it underwent one or more redactions in later centuries, making it applicable to a Judahite audience. However, several lines of evidence suggest inste…
This dissertation identifies an intertextual relationship between the prophetic books of Hosea and Malachi, which creates a literary frame around the Minor Prophets and indicates that the twelve books should be read as a unified Book of the Twelve. Using literary criticism, the …