HOSANNA. See Liturgics, III.

HOSEA.

I. Conservative View.

The Book of Hosea. Its Genuineness (ý 1).

Date of Hosea's Activity (ý 2).

Contents of the Book (ý 3).

The Complete Law Implied (ý 4).

Literary Features (ý5).

II. Critical View.

Questions of Text and Authorship (ý 1).

Problem of Chaps. i.-iii. (ý 2).

Chap. iii. a Continuation of Chap. i. (ý 3).

Interpretations of Chap. i. The Literal View (ý 4).

A Possible Alternative (ý 5).

Date of Chips. i.-iii. (ý 6).

Features of Chaps. iv.-uv. (ý 7).

I. Conservative View

1. The Book of Hosea. Its Genuineness

Hosea, son of Beeri, was all his life a subject of the northern kingdom, as is indicated in i. 2 and vii. 5 where he speaks of the northern king as "our king" and of the land as belonging to that realm. His book, Its moreover, shows a minute knowledge Genuine- of that land, while the references toness. Judah are cursory and due to the fact that he regards salvation as possible only from it, where still exist the service of Yahweh and the Davidie line. The objection of Wellhausen to passages referring to David and Judah as interpolations because contrary to Hosea's view of the kingdom; of Stade to i. 7 and ii. 1-3 as breaking the connection, and to iv. 15, viii. 4 as not in accord with Hosea's representation; and of Cornill, who sees in ii. 20 and xiv. proof of the spuriousness of the verses which look for a union of the two kingdoms, are all answerable. The reference to Gibeah in ix. 9 and x. 10 can, according to viii. 4, x. 10, refer only_to the separation of the kingdoms; i. 7 can not be ascribed to an interpolator because of its Hpseanic character; the repetition of Yahweh in iii. 5b speaks for the genuineness of the whole verse; the exhortation in ii. 1-3 corresponds to the threat in i. 2-9; while the references to a Davidic king are motived by the Messianic outlook of the prophet.