A Short Note on Hos 3:1a
In: Vetus TestamentumWhile often translated to describe the current living situation of the woman whom Hosea is to marry, the grammar of Hos 3:1a properly describes her current status based upon past actions.
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Cf. S.L. Budin, The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008). Likewise, the prominence of Baal worship itself in 8th c. Israel (or later) has come under critique: cf. Kelle, Hosea 2, 137-66.
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Mays, Hosea, 57-58. Cf. Van Hoonacker, Petits Prophétes, 33; Dearman, Hosea, 85; et al.
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Macintosh, Hosea, 93-95; cp. Wolff, Hosea, 56: “love a woman who loves a friend and practices adultery.”
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Jörg Jeremias, Der Prophet Hosea (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1983), 52; cf. Artur Weiser, Die Propheten Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadja, Jona, Micha (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1985), 35: “liebe ein Weib, die doch einen andern liebt und Ehebruch treibt.”
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Dominique Barthélemy, Critique Textuelle de l’Ancien Testament (Vol. 3; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992), 504; following Albin Van Hoonacker, Les douze petits Prophétes (Paris: 1908), 33. The characterization of עַרֵ as “husband,” proposed by Van Hoonacker (cf. nasb), has no semantic justification despite its appearance in the Targum. The term means “neighbor” in the most general sense, a male in the community. Nor does it mean “paramour,” as rsv or Luther’s “buhle.”
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So, after a form, Wilhelm Rudolph, Hosea (Kommentar zum Alten Testament 13/1; Gütersloh: Gerd Mohn, 1966), 84: “das Part. Pass., das hier tolerativ zu fassen ist, umschreibt den Begriff der Dirne.”
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While often translated to describe the current living situation of the woman whom Hosea is to marry, the grammar of Hos 3:1a properly describes her current status based upon past actions.
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