Hosea (International Critical Commentary | ICC)

by A. A. MacIntosh

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 1997

ISBN: 9780567323286

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Overview

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.

No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought.

Editors at the Time of Publication: John Adney Emerton, Charles E. B. Cranfield, Graham Norman Stanton

Original Series Editors: Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, Charles Augustus Briggs

The depth of analysis found in the International Critical Commentary (ICC) Series has yet to be surpassed in any commentary collection. One of the best features of this series is the extensive amount of background information given in each volume's introduction, where all of the analysis is provided before the actual commentary begins. Each volume packs more information into the introduction than you will often find in the body of most commentaries! Also consider that with the electronic versions of each volume, you will never need to leaf through the hundreds of pages in each volume searching for the passage you are studying.

Top Highlights

“Recognition of the chronological priority of Hosea is linked in this same passage to the phrase of Hosea 1:2 תחלת דבר יהוה בהושע, ‘the beginning of Yahweh’s speaking’ and this is interpreted in a relative sense, i.e. amongst the contemporaries Hosea, Isaiah, Amos and Micah, it was to Hosea that the Lord first spoke (cf. Jerome on 1.2). Although the interpretation refers explicitly to the eighth century prophets, it is likely also to reflect the prior place accorded to Hosea in the quite different category of the Twelve or Minor Prophets.” (Page lii)

“judged to be glosses or alterations made by Judaean redactors” (Page lxx)

“Since Hosea is the only prophet from the Northern Kingdom whose written words have come down to us” (Page liii)

“It is possible, on the one hand, that the composer of this section of the book (as opposed to Hosea) saw in the word עוד a convenient reference for his introduction at chapter 1:2, ‘when Yahweh first spoke to Hosea, he said …’. Consequently it may have been his intention that עור should signify ‘said to me again’⁴ On this view the compiler’s point must be that Yahweh said something similar on this second occasion to what he had said on the first.” (Page 93)

“bride-price consists of equity, justice, kindness, compassion and steadfastness (2:21f, EV 19f)” (Page xcv)

...one of the very best commentaries ever written on a minor prophet, and a book that holds its place among the best commentaries on any Bible book.

— Online Reviewer

In this commentary, the result of a fifteen year effort, Macintosh succeeds admirably in applying traditional linguistic and historical tools of exegesis.

— Gale A. Yee, University of St Thomas, St. Paul, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly

This fine, learned and patient commentary will be a great resource for those who wish to engage in a detailed study of Hosea. [...] Macintosh is tireless in his attempts to elucidate Hosea's language, ranging widely over scholarship of many centuries, but always building his comments into a lucid and coherent synthesis. [...] This is a distinguished, 'advanced' commentary that blends conservatism and innovation, and a worthy addition to the ICC.

— Philip Satterthwaite, Anvil