CONTENTS -- 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 -- 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 Animal Imagery 114 -- Analysis of Animal Imagery 115.

Agricultural Imagery 116 -- Ephraim as Farmer 116 -- YHWH as Farmer 119 -- Other Agricultural References 120 -- Analysis of Agricultural Imagery 120 -- Plant Imagery 122 -- Ephraim as Plant 122 -- YHWH as Plant 125 -- Other References to Plants 125 -- Analysis of Plant Imagery 126 -- Natural Phenomena Imagery 127 -- Water Imagery 127 -- Wind Imagery 129 -- Other References to Natural Phenomena 129 -- Analysis of Natural Phenomena Imagery 130 -- Conclusions 130 -- 5 Syntheses and Subversions 133 -- Summary 133 -- Female Imagery 134 -- Male Imagery 135 -- Parent-Child Imagery 136 -- Sickness and Healing Imagery 137 -- Hunting and Seeking Imagery 138 -- Animal Imagery 138 -- Agricultural Imagery 139 -- Plant Imagery 139 -- Natural Phenomena Imagery 140 -- Trends in Metaphoric Predication 140 -- Trends for YHWH 141 -- Trends for Ephraim/Israel 142 -- Subversions 144 -- Subversions in the Gender Imagery 146 -- Movement in Social Space 153 -- Implications for Masculinity 155 -- 6 Conclusion 159 -- The Function of Masculinity in Hosea 160 -- Methodological Considerations 163 -- Final Words 164 -- Notes 165 -- Bibliography 221.