Lord of the Storm and Oracular Decisions: Competing Construals of Storm God Imagery in Hosea 6:1–6.

The poetry of Hosea employs and engages the religious imagery from the Baʿlu cult in its construal of Israel's deity, YHWH, as a storm god. The present article focuses on the varied uses of storm god imagery in Hos 6:1–6 and offers a new explanation for the abstruse imagery of verse 5 and for the po...

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Published in:	Vetus Testamentum Vol. 70; no. 4/5; pp. 634 - 645
Main Authors:	Lancaster, Mason D., Miglio, Adam E.
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2020
Subjects:	God Colon (Anatomy) Translators Poetry (Literary form) Divination Israel
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The poetry of Hosea employs and engages the religious imagery from the Baʿlu cult in its construal of Israel's deity, YHWH, as a storm god. The present article focuses on the varied uses of storm god imagery in Hos 6:1–6 and offers a new explanation for the abstruse imagery of verse 5 and for the polemical dynamics at play within 6:1–6. In particular, it treats the final colon of Hos 6:5, which has defied explanation by interpreters: wmšpṭy kʾwr yṣʾ.