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Hosea and Amos
- Two Parts
- chs 1-3
- Description of Hosea's marriage
- Hos 1:2 was Gomer a
prostitute? Sexual and
marital metaphors-
God:husband
Israel:wife
Adultory:Idolatry
- Gomer- a victim of violence
or victim of a metaphor? Is
violence within a marriage
acceptable (cf Exek 16,23)
Must women identify
themselves with either the
male Hosea or the female
prostitute? How do these
metaphors influence our
views of marriage?
- Gomer- a victim of violence
or victim of a metaphor? Is
violence within a marriage
acceptable (cf Exek 16,23)
Must women identify
themselves with either the
male Hosea or the female
prostitute? How do these
metaphors influence our
views of marriage?
- Hos 1:2 was Gomer a
prostitute? Sexual and
marital metaphors-
God:husband
Israel:wife
Adultory:Idolatry
- Description of Hosea's marriage
- chs 4-14
- Divine oracles
- Hosea's message
of judgement
- There are glimmers of hope: God's
honeymoon with Israel in the
wilderness (9:10) Israel's corruptness
goes a long way back. God's
ambivalent feelings; compassion and
wrath (11:8-9) The people have sinned
and must suffer the consequences but
God's love for her makes it hard for
him to punish thiem. God is willing to
change his mind in the face of
repentance (6:11, 7:13)
- BUT as the situation gets steadily
worse, in the end there is no turning
back; Judgement is coming regardless of
the people's action (13:14)
- BUT as the situation gets steadily
worse, in the end there is no turning
back; Judgement is coming regardless of
the people's action (13:14)
- There are glimmers of hope: God's
honeymoon with Israel in the
wilderness (9:10) Israel's corruptness
goes a long way back. God's
ambivalent feelings; compassion and
wrath (11:8-9) The people have sinned
and must suffer the consequences but
God's love for her makes it hard for
him to punish thiem. God is willing to
change his mind in the face of
repentance (6:11, 7:13)
- Hosea's message
of judgement
- Divine oracles
- chs 1-3
- Born: Tekoa in Judah
Prophecied: in Bethel
- Focuses on the internal politics-
never mentions Assyria
- Davidic Royalist-was he
critical of the cult in Bethel?
- probably not, no textual support
- probably not, no textual support
- Davidic Royalist-was he
critical of the cult in Bethel?
- Focuses on the internal politics-
never mentions Assyria
- Outline of the book
- 1:3-2:16 Oracles against the nations of Damascus,
Gaza, Tyrus, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah and Israel
- chs 3-6 General judgement over Samaria
- chs 7:1- 8:3 four visions and Amos' meeting
with the high priest of Amaziah in Bethel
- chs 8:4- 8:13 Judgement of
social oppression and exertion
- ch 9 universal vision, final judgement and redemption
- ch 9 universal vision, final judgement and redemption
- chs 8:4- 8:13 Judgement of
social oppression and exertion
- Election= responsibility, no
excuses for misconduct
- glimmer of
hope in 6:15
- glimmer of
hope in 6:15
- chs 7:1- 8:3 four visions and Amos' meeting
with the high priest of Amaziah in Bethel
- God is universal, the people are
condemned for crimes against humanity
- chs 3-6 General judgement over Samaria
- 1:3-2:16 Oracles against the nations of Damascus,
Gaza, Tyrus, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah and Israel
- Themes of Amos
- Social Justice
- The leaders and their wives are
condemned for living in luxury and
for their copious drinking
- The leaders and their wives are
condemned for living in luxury and
for their copious drinking
- Condemnation of
the cult in Bethel
- The day of the Lord is no reason for
celebration: foreboding of judgement
rather than confidence in salvation, God
prefers righteous living to sacrifices
- The day of the Lord is no reason for
celebration: foreboding of judgement
rather than confidence in salvation, God
prefers righteous living to sacrifices
- Social Justice
- Amos the visionary and intercessor
- God shows Amos 5 visions
(7:1, 7:4, 7:7, 8:1, 9:1)
- Visions
- 1st- locusts
- Plea: forgive, Jacob is so small
Response: God changes his mind
- BUT had the locusts finished
their destruction before
Amos' intervention (7:2)
- BUT had the locusts finished
their destruction before
Amos' intervention (7:2)
- Plea: forgive, Jacob is so small
Response: God changes his mind
- 2nd- fire
- Plea: Please stop, Jacob is so small
Response: God changes his mind
- Plea: Please stop, Jacob is so small
Response: God changes his mind
- 3rd- plumb line
- Hebrew=lead or tin
- Suggestion, tin is a reference to the Assyrian military
power- Sennacherib boasts of having increased the
amount of tin in his weapons to make it stronger
- No plea but a divine declaration
"I will no more pass them by"
- No plea but a divine declaration
"I will no more pass them by"
- Suggestion, tin is a reference to the Assyrian military
power- Sennacherib boasts of having increased the
amount of tin in his weapons to make it stronger
- Hebrew=lead or tin
- 4th- basket of summer fruit
- word play:
'summer' and
'end' cf Jer
1:11-12
- No plea but a divine
declaration "I will no
more pass them by"
- No plea but a divine
declaration "I will no
more pass them by"
- word play:
'summer' and
'end' cf Jer
1:11-12
- 5th- God's
punishment
- no one will survive
- an original
member of
the series,
fits well
with the
military
content of
the 3rd
vision, the
final result
of God's
punishment
- an original
member of
the series,
fits well
with the
military
content of
the 3rd
vision, the
final result
of God's
punishment
- no one will survive
- 1st- locusts
- Amaziah calls
him a seer
(7:12)
- Visions
- The visions
create an
impression
of dread
rather than
deliver a
promise
and a
timetable
of
destruction
- God shows Amos 5 visions
(7:1, 7:4, 7:7, 8:1, 9:1)
- Hosea the man:
Nothing known
about background
or occupation
- Faithless wife: Gomer (1-3)
- children with sad names
Jezreel (stands for
bloodshed and
punishment), Unloved
and Not my people
- children with sad names
Jezreel (stands for
bloodshed and
punishment), Unloved
and Not my people
- Faithless wife: Gomer (1-3)
- Criticism of contemporaries
- Lack of faithfulness,
no knowledge of
God, attack on the
priests, attack on
foreign policy, attack
on social injustice
- Attack on the king. 1 Dissolution of the modern
monarchy 2. Opposition in principle to any form of
human kinship. 3. Divine right of the Davidic
dynasty of Judah
- Attack on the king. 1 Dissolution of the modern
monarchy 2. Opposition in principle to any form of
human kinship. 3. Divine right of the Davidic
dynasty of Judah
- Lack of faithfulness,
no knowledge of
God, attack on the
priests, attack on
foreign policy, attack
on social injustice
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