Metaphor and Masculinity in Hosea
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Susan E. Haddox
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Preface ............................................................................................... ix Acknowledgments .............................................................................. xi List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xiii 1 Introduction and History of Interpretation ................................ 1 Introduction ................................................................................... 1 Composition History ...................................................................... 7 Genre and Rhetorical Studies ......................................................... 8 Studies of the Marriage Metaphor ................................................. 11 The Nature of Hosea’s Marriage ............................................. 11 Interpretations of the Marriage Metaphor ................................ 12 Studies of Other Metaphors .......................................................... 27 2 Masculinity and Metaphor: An Approach to Analysis ................. 31 Masculinity Theory ...................................................................... 31 Audience ............................................................................... 32 Anthropological Perspectives on Masculinity Theory ............... 32 Applying Masculinity Theory to Hosea ................................... 35 Anthropological Theories of Metaphor ......................................... 38 Symbolic Language ................................................................ 38 Definitions of Metaphor ......................................................... 40 Social Quality Space ............................................................... 41 Performative Metaphors ......................................................... 42 Persuasive Metaphors ............................................................. 43 Responses to Predications ....................................................... 45 Axes for Analysis ................................................................... 46 Tropes Related to Metaphor ................................................... 47 Metaphorical Domains ........................................................... 51 Metaphor, the Inchoate, and Masculinity ...................................... 52 vi Metaphor and Masculinity in Hosea 3 Predications of Gender-Based Imagery .................................... 55 Masculinity Studies of the Bible .................................................... 55 Psychoanalytic Studies ........................................................... 56 Studies of Individual Masculinities .......................................... 57 Studies of Normative Masculinity ........................................... 59 Gender Imagery in Hosea ............................................................. 61 Female Imagery ..................................................................... 61 Male Imagery ......................................................................... 72 Mixed Gender Imagery .......................................................... 87 Conclusions ................................................................................. 89 4 Predications of Non-Gender-Based Imagery ............................. 91 Parent-Child Imagery ................................................................... 91 Ephraim/Israel as Child ......................................................... 92 Ephraim/Israel as Parent ........................................................ 98 Analysis of Parent-Child Imagery .......................................... 100 Sickness and Healing Imagery .................................................... 103 Cases of Sickness .................................................................. 103 Causes of Sickness ................................................................ 104 Curers of Sickness ................................................................ 104 Analysis of Sickness and Healing Imagery ............................. 105 Hunting and Seeking Imagery ..................................................... 106 Ephraim/Israel as Hunter and Seeker .................................... 106 YHWH as Hunter ................................................................ 107 Humans as Prey ................................................................... 108 Analysis of Hunting and Seeking Imagery ............................. 108 Animal Imagery ......................................................................... 109 Ephraim/Israel as Animals ................................................... 109 YHWH as Animal ............................................................... 112 Other...
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