The Prophet The Prostitute

Author : Marion Wyse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0842349103

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The Prophet & the Prostitute by Marion Wyse Pdf

Author : Yvonne Sherwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567040712

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The Prostitute and the Prophet by Yvonne Sherwood Pdf

The only consensus that has been reached on Hosea 1-3 is that it is a notoriously 'problematic' text. Sherwood unpicks this rather vague statement by examining the particular complexities of the text and frictions between the text and reader that conspire to produce such a disorientating effect. Four dimensions of the 'problem' are considered: the conflict between text and reader over the 'improper' relationship between Hosea and Gomer; the bizarre prophetic sign-language that conscripts people into a cosmic charade; the text's propensity to subvert its central theses; and the emergent tensions between the feminist reader and the text. Aiming to bring together literary criticism and biblical scholarship, this book provides lucid introductions to ideological criticism, semiotics, deconstruction and feminist criticism, and looks at the implications of these approaches not only for the book of Hosea but for biblical studies in general.

Author : Marion Wyse
Publisher : Tyndale House Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 084234909X

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The Prophet and the Prostitute by Marion Wyse Pdf

Author : Yvonne Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1244470714

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The prostitute and the prophet by Yvonne Sherwood Pdf

Author : Francis Landy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850755493

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Hosea by Francis Landy Pdf

This reading of Hosea explores the book from a feminist, psychoanalytical and poetic perspective. What is God doing with a prostitute? How does the theme of prostitution relate to the abjection of the woman as the other, and the fantasy of sexual ecstasy, precisely because she escapes patriarchal order? Where is the prophet situated in the dialectic of rage and desire that both seduces and condemns Israel? His voice is both masculine and feminine, and poetically embodies the sensuality of wayward Israel. The ambiguity of voice is also that of the prophet's role, which is both to nurture Israel, as on its Exodus from Egypt, and to be the trap that destroys it. The problematic of voice and prophetic function is evident in the vivid dissection of Israel's social institutions, whose disintegration is inversely related to the centrality of the discussion in the structure of the book, and in the violent swings from despair to impossible hope. The focus on immediate and uncontrollable entropy, manifest in extended tangled metaphors, that occupies the centre of the book, is framed in the outer chapters by intertextual references to Israel's primordial vision, and the romantic distantiation of the Song of Songs, in which the erotic and poetic contradictions of the book find their perhaps ironic resolution.

Author : Andreas J. Köstenberger,David W. Jones
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Families
ISBN : 9781433503641

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God, Marriage, and Family by Andreas J. Köstenberger,David W. Jones Pdf

This updated edition of Köstenberger and Jones's landmark work tackles the latest debates and cultural challenges to God's plan for marriage and the family and urges a return to a biblical foundation.

Author : Gary V. Smith
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310872672

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Hosea, Amos, Micah by Gary V. Smith Pdf

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433520594

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This Momentary Marriage by John Piper Pdf

Reflecting on forty years of matrimony, John Piper exalts the biblical meaning of marriage over its emotion, exhorting couples to keep their covenant for all the best reasons. Even in the days when people commonly stayed married "'til death do us part," there has never been a generation whose view of marriage was high enough, says Pastor John Piper. That is all the more true in our casual times. Though personal selfishness and cultural bondage obstruct the wonder of God's purpose, it is found in God's Word, where his design can awaken a glorious vision capable of freeing every person from small, Christ-ignoring, romance-intoxicated views. As Piper explains in reflecting on forty years of matrimony: "Most foundationally, marriage is the doing of God. And ultimately, marriage is the display of God. It displays the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his people to the world in a way that no other event or institution does. Marriage, therefore, is not mainly about being in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. And staying married is not about staying in love. It is about keeping covenant and putting the glory of Christ's covenant-keeping love on display." This Momentary Marriage unpacks the biblical vision, its unexpected contours, and its weighty implications for married, single, divorced, and remarried alike.

Author : Matthew Steven Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1954858108

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Hosea (The Proclaim Commentary Series) by Matthew Steven Black Pdf

The book of Hosea is a story of the amazing love of God for us. It is also a salvation story. Hosea was asked by God to marry a woman who would prove to be unfaithful to him later. He was to use his marriage as an object lesson for Israel because they were deep into sin and far, far away from God. Hosea was to play the part of God. His wife, Gomer would play the part of God's people. We see this covenant love of God played out in Hosea's marriage. Despite Gomer's unfaithfulness, Hosea continued to care and provide for her to the extent that he went to buy her back from the slave market (Hose 3:1-2). The gospel of Hosea is this: No matter what we do, no matter how sinful we are, God pursues us, romances us, stalks us, and stakes us out in a radical grace based in himself. When we run away from him, God still pursues us. God pursues us because he does not want "anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). As we look back on our lives and how we came to salvation, many of us would have sensed the feeling that God pursued us. And just as God pursues us, we are compelled to pursue others too.

Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593442944

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Redeeming Love (Movie Tie-In) by Francine Rivers Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Nina Dobrev, with Logan Marshall Green and Eric Dane, special appearance by Famke Janssen. Distributed by Universal Pictures with a screenplay by Francine Rivers and D.J. Caruso. California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything. Michael obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation, until despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening comes overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she no longer can deny: her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael does . . . the One who will never let her go. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love. Includes a six-part reading group guide!

Author : Joseph Descans
Publisher : Trilogy Christian Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1685566758

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Hosea by Joseph Descans Pdf

"This book piques your interest in every chapter and keeps you in suspense for what will happen next." -Mom What will happen when two principal representatives of good and evil come together in matrimony? A holy prophet consecrated to God for many generations and the wandering prostitute shrouded in nocturnal infamy. Could this be something God put together? Is this not the recipe for heartbreak? Could there by any way this union will end well? You can find out right here in this modern interpretation of one of the most controversial stories of the Bible: Hosea.

Author : Mary E. Shields
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826435361

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Circumscribing the Prostitute by Mary E. Shields Pdf

In Jeremiah 3.1-4.4 the prophet employs the image of Israel as God's unfaithful wife, who acts like a prostitute. The entire passage is a rich and complex rhetorical tapestry designed to convince the people of Israel of the error of their political and religious ways, and their need to change before it is too late. As well as metaphor and gender, another important thread in the tapestry is intertextuality, according to which the historical, political and social contexts of both author and reader enter into dialogue and thus produce different interpretations. But, as Shields shows in her final chapter, it is in the end the rhetoric of gender that actually constructs the text, providing the frame, the warp and woof, of the entire tapestry, and thus the prophet's primary means of persuasion.

Author : David T. Lamb
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310518488

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Prostitutes and Polygamists by David T. Lamb Pdf

Jacob and Solomon were polygamists. Tamar and Rahab were prostitutes. What are polygamists and prostitutes doing on the pages of Holy Scripture? And God told the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute. What about Cain—did he really marry his sister? Abraham did, and he was also a polygamist. Lot offered his daughters up for rape, David committed adultery (or rape?) and the Bible calls both men righteous. Love, Old Testament style, was bizarre. As readers of the Old Testament encounter these weird, confusing, and horrific “love” stories they ask, “What’s up with sex in the Old Testament?” The church often ignores the R-rated bits of the Bible, so it’s hard for people to find answers to their disturbing questions about sex in Scripture, which can lead people to give up on God and God’s word. However, these stories were included in the Bible for a reason, to reveal an even more shocking “love” story. When humans behave badly, God behaves graciously. God not only forgives people with sexual baggage, but also redeems their lives and includes them in his mission. God’s word records their story to benefit us. Just as sex was not often ideal in the Old Testament, it’s often not ideal today. Instead of ignoring these stories, Prostitutes and Polygamists engages, discusses, and learns from them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433546556

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ESV Expository Commentary (Volume 7) by Anonim Pdf

Designed to strengthen the global church with a widely accessible, theologically sound, and pastorally wise resource for understanding and applying the overarching storyline of the Bible, this commentary series features the full text of the ESV Bible passage by passage, with crisp and theologically rich exposition and application. Editors Iain M. Duguid, James M. Hamilton, and Jay A. Sklar have gathered a team of experienced pastor-theologians to provide a new generation of pastors and other teachers of the Bible around the world with a globally minded commentary series rich in biblical theology and broadly Reformed doctrine, making the message of redemption found in all of Scripture clear and available to all. Thirteen contributors explain the shorter Prophetic Books of the Old Testament—Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi—with biblical insight and pastoral wisdom, showing readers the hope that is offered even amidst judgment. Contributors include: Mitchell L. Chase George Schwab Allan M. Harman Michael G. McKelvey Max Rogland Jay Sklar Stephen J. Dempster Daniel Timmer David G. Firth Jason S. DeRouchie Michael Stead Anthony R. Petterson Eric Ortlund

Author : Lesley Hazleton
Publisher : Doubleday Religion
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385516150

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Jezebel by Lesley Hazleton Pdf

There is no woman with a worse reputation than Jezebel, the ancient queen who corrupted a nation and met one of the most gruesome fates in the Bible. Her name alone speaks of sexual decadence and promiscuity. But what if this version of her story, handed down to us through the ages, is merely the one her enemies wanted us to believe? What if Jezebel, far from being a conniving harlot, was, in fact, framed? In this remarkable new biography, Lesley Hazleton shows exactly how the proud and courageous queen of Israel was vilified and made into the very embodiment of wanton wickedness by her political and religious enemies. Jezebel brings readers back to the source of the biblical story, a rich and dramatic saga featuring evil schemes and underhanded plots, war and treason, false gods and falser humans, and all with the fate of entire nations at stake. At its center are just one woman and one man—the sophisticated Queen Jezebel and the stark prophet Elijah. Their epic and ultimately tragic confrontation pits tolerance against righteousness, pragmatism against divine dictates, and liberalism against conservatism. It is, in other words, the original story of the unholy marriage of sex, politics, and religion, and it ends in one of the most chillingly brutal scenes in the entire Bible. Here at last is the real story of the rise and fall of this legendary woman—a radically different portrait with startling contemporary resonance in a world mired once again in religious wars.