The Prophetic Word of Hosea. A Morphological Study

Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter I: Introduction
I. Form Criticism and Morphological Method
II. The Analysis of Literary Forms
Chapter II: The Data in Translation
Chapter III: The Word as Literature
I. The Size of Units and the Process of Transmission
II. Poetry
III. Narrative
Chapter IV: The Word as Communication
I. Introduction
II. The Speaker
A. Threats
B. Accusations
C. Positive Motifs. Relations to the Cult
III. The Addressee
Chapter V: The Word as Message: Terms
I. Introduction
II. Negative Terms
A. General Negative Terms
1. Enmity
2. Separation and Negation
B. Terms of Threat and Destruction
1. Judicial Controversy (Rîb)
2. »The Day of Yahweh« and Terms for War and Destruction
3. Other Threatening Terms
C. Terms of Accusation
1. General and Moral Evil
2. Sins More Specifically Against Yahweh
III. Positive Terms
A. Expectations or Hopes for Israel
B. Recognitions of Yahweh
IV. Open or Ambiguous Terms for the God-Israel Relationship and Its Cult
V. Conclusion
Chapter VI: The Word as Message: Structure
I. The Function of Prophecy in Its Context
II. The Negative Structure
III. The Positive Structure
IV. The Structure of Eschatology
A. Hosea’s Conceptual Pattern
B. The Dynamics of Eschatological Expectations
C. Future and End in Human Life and the Question of Love
Index