This week the professor continues his series on the prophets of ancient Israel. Last week we considered the foundational prophet Amos. This week, his near contemporary in the eighth century B.C., the ...

If Israel, like Jacob, holds fast to its mission – even in exile, even in danger, even in darkness – then the promise of ...

“Go! Marry a prostitute and beget children of prostitution! For the land is guilty of the most hideous kind of prostitution for forsaking YHWH.” — Hosea 1:2 The Inclusive Bible The prophet Hosea was ...

“Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars” (Hosea 10:1).

We hear it in the air: “Information is power.” Some even say enviously, “Well, some lucky people are super-informed. But we are still getting all our information from the news.” Everywhere you look, ...

In many ways, nations resemble people. Just like human beings, nations go through mood swings. Sometimes their populations are ecstatic, and at other times a psychological malaise hovers over the land ...

It is not every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The ...