 | Rosemary R. Ruether - 1993 - 316 Seiten
...of agricultural prosperity. Yahweh must thunder that he, not Baal, is the source of these benefits: Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife and I am not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts, lest I... | |
 | Rela M. Geffen - 1993 - 302 Seiten
...Israel and issues a combined demand and warning: Rebuke your mother [=your nation], rebuke her — For she is not My wife And I am not her husband — And let her put away her harlotry from her face And her adultery from between her breasts. Else... | |
 | Howard Eilberg-Schwart - 1995 - 332 Seiten
...as God's wife. Rather, they are children of Israel the mother: "Rebuke your mother, rebuke her — for she is not My wife and I am not her husband" (Hos. 1 :4). * "But do not both mother and children represent Israel?" asks Wolff perceptively (1974,... | |
 | Joel B. Green - 1995 - 461 Seiten
...Hosea's exhortation, in which the prophet, expressing God's sentiments toward unfaithful Israel, says "Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife and I am not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face and her adultery from between her breasts" (Hos 2:2).... | |
 | Kristiaan Depoortere - 1995 - 164 Seiten
...reject his wife. Nevertheless, behind even these cruel threats, there is nostalgia and tenderness: Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; lest I... | |
 | Geneva Smitherman - 1995 - 284 Seiten
...United Methodist scriptural readings with a few mysogynistic lines from Hosea. I gave him the quote. Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband — that she put away her whoring from her face and her adultery from between her breasts, or I will... | |
 | Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, Wendy Doniger - 1995 - 244 Seiten
...after other nations. 11 According to Hosea, God demands that the Israelites rebuke their mother Israel "for she is not My wife and I am not her husband. And let her put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts" (Hosea... | |
 | Francis Landy - 1995 - 200 Seiten
...transformation an act of will? The denial of the sexual relationship at the beginning of the passage ('For she is not my wife and I am not her husband') implicitly cancels out all its associated couplings, the entire interaction of God and Israel. It thus... | |
 | Joel Lurie Grishaver - 1997 - 268 Seiten
...mercy), and (3) LoAmi (not of My peopie). Then he breaks out in prophecy: REBUKE YOU MOTHER, REBUKE HER FOR SHE IS NOT MY WIFE AND I AM NOT HER HUSBAND — HAVE HER STOP BEING A WHORE — IT SHOWS ON HER FACE TAKE AWAY THE ADULTERY FROM HER BREASTS OTHERWISE... | |
 | Bruce C. Birch - 1997 - 276 Seiten
...our own efforts to speak God's word as the church to our time. SHE IS NOT MY WIFE Hosea 2:2-23 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband — that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts, 'or I will... | |
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Plead with your mother, plead — for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband... 
