Hosea’s Covenant Imagery and the Northern Tribes’ Future 21811
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The book of Hosea is short enough to read in an evening, yet dense enough to drive debates that run for generations. Hosea writes from the northern kingdom in the eighth century BCE, when prosperity hid rot and Assyria loomed on the horizon. He speaks in poetry, and poetry allows him to hold opposites together: judgment and mercy, divorce and remarriage, exile and homecoming. That tension is the thread pulling through his covenant imagery%2LS������
