@article{ART002884007},
author={Kim Soon Young},
title={A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective},
journal={Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies},
issn={1229-0521},
year={2022},
volume={28},
number={3},
pages={43-71},
doi={10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim Soon Young
TI - A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective
JO - Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies
PY - 2022
VL - 28
IS - 3
PB - Korean Society of Old Testament Studies
SP - 43
EP - 71
SN - 1229-0521
AB - This thesis is a reexamination of Hosea 1-3, focusing on Gomer whose voice is hidden for dramatic composition and it is a study of loosely applied feminism which critiques the crisis of the patriarchy where the husband controls his wife. For a long time Hosea was regarded as a victim of an unhappy marriage and Gomer as an assailant who trampled on her husband's love and dishonored her husband by scholars, but this is a problem from a feminist perspective.
Hosea 1-3 is a prophetic drama rich in symbolism that intensely describes the relationship between God and Israel in chapters 4-14 through the metaphor of marriage and adultery but this metaphor contains a provocative aspect. It is that God's love and punishment for unfaithful Israel are intertwined with images of patriarchal and sadistic violence. However, this in effect criticizes and denounces the corrupt mainstream patriarchal society by placing Israel as the unfaithful Gomer. Israel is represented as an adulterous wife which then places the Jewish men representing Israel's mainstream society in the position of the opposite gender. It is a rhetorical strategy that trapped Israel into the image of adulterous wife, and it ultimately condemned the nature of obscenity in a male-dominated society which was shocking and provocative.
The placement of the adulterous image on Israel poses a risk of damaging God’s honor to be in the husband's position, but this also reveals the extraordinary nature of God's love that takes on the shame. In God's plan for restoration there is no longer the regression of patriarchy for domination and subordination. God inscribed the ideal partnership between man and women in the Garden of Eden which is Israel’s ultimate goal for restoration. The verse, “In that day, you will call me ‘my husband’ (ishi), you will no longer call me ‘my lord’ (baali)” (2:16) shows this goal. Finally, the eternal marriage covenant has a cosmic impact that extends to universal restoration, and through the integration of the stories of Hosea-Gomer (3:1-3) and the descendants of Israel(3:4-5), YHWH's unconventional love is revealed even at the cost of human shame.
KW - Hosea;marriage metaphor;adultery;feminism;Gomer
DO - 10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
ER -
Kim Soon Young. (2022). A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 28(3), 43-71.
Kim Soon Young. 2022, "A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective", Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, vol.28, no.3 pp.43-71. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
Kim Soon Young "A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 28.3 pp.43-71 (2022) : 43.
Kim Soon Young. A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective. 2022; 28(3), 43-71. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
Kim Soon Young. "A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 28, no.3 (2022) : 43-71.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
Kim Soon Young. A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies, 28(3), 43-71. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
Kim Soon Young. A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective. Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies. 2022; 28(3) 43-71. doi: 10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
Kim Soon Young. A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective. 2022; 28(3), 43-71. Available from: doi:10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
Kim Soon Young. "A Reading of Hosea 1-3 from a Feminist Perspective" Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies 28, no.3 (2022) : 43-71.doi: 10.24333/jkots.2022.28.3.43
