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Gomer (wife of Hosea)

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20: 145:(Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH), which has been emphasised by previous interpreters, but also to a Creation Theology (YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility-providing gods). From a feminist perspective, Abbott argues that even if the story of the marriage was only a metaphor, it was still used "in the service of a gendered, hierarchical, and dualistic model of reality" and the choice of imagery has 172:, the two protagonists encounter a man in a black cape who tells them to sleep with a prostitute, have children with her and name them "Ye Are Not My People" and "No More Mercy". Afterwards they meet a prostitute who wants to become pregnant and gives the same names for the children as those predicted by the man in the cape. 270:
Mr Kalman calls Chaja "A Gomer" while arguing with his wife about Chaja's appointment as nanny to the children as she wearing a mini skirt and a revealing top, which the Hassidic Mr Kalman cannot approve of ("She's practically naked!"). The listening children seem to know what that means, as Avrum
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announces to Dov that "Daddy called her a Gomer!", while Chaja later has to ask what the term is. It is explained to her that "In the Bible, Gomer is a wicked promiscuous woman", and that to Mr Kalman, "any woman in a mini skirt would be".
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relates how Hosea has three children, a son called Jezreel, a daughter Lo-Ruhamah and another son Lo-Ammi. All the names are described in the text as having symbolic meaning, reflecting the relationship between God and
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seems to allude to the marriage of Hosea and Gomer: "Twelve years old, they put me in a suit /Forced me to marry a prostitute /There were gold fringes on her wedding dress."
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According to some scholars such as Walter Brueggerman and Kirsten Abbott, the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer includes metaphors pertaining not only to
343: 397: 237:(Mesu Andrews') 2013 novel "(Love In A Broken Vessel)" features Gomer as a main character as well as her marriage to Hosea. 412: 307: 261:, character Dove Linkhorn relates the tale of Hosea and Gomer to explain how he will deal with his girlfriend Hallie. 102:) but Hosea is told to marry her according to Divine appointment. She is also described as the daughter of Diblaim. 417: 402: 257: 407: 115: 91: 295: 164: 278:
is a retelling of the Book of Hosea and features Gomer prominently as one of the central characters.
130:, however, it says that she is "loved by another man and is an adulteress" (NIV). Hosea is told to 48: 347: 131: 248: 8: 266: 325: 210: 180: 142: 123: 79: 192: 28: 200: 39: 344:"Kirsten Abbott "Creation Motifs in Hosea", Sea Changes Journal, December 2005" 205: 119: 169: 391: 175: 67: 311: 240:
Robert DeLong references "Hosea married Gomer..." in his song Mud in My Eyes
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says that this is "hardly an implication" of Gomer's adultery. In
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which is the source of their fans calling themselves "Gomers."
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tells the story of a prostitute named Angel in the 1850s
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Hosea
Bible Historiale
Hebrew
romanized
Hosea
Hebrew Bible
Book of Hosea
1:3
Hosea 1:2
promiscuous woman
NIV
harlot
NASB
whore
KJV
Hosea 1
Israel
valley of that name
James Mays
Hosea 3:1
buy her back
shekels
Covenant Theology
patriarchal
misogynistic
The Milky Way
Luis Buñuel
Brooke Fraser
Albertine

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