However, even if you are not religious dont let this put you off. Highlights from the book of hosea watchtower online library. Hosea 114 niv the word of the lord that came to hosea. Hosea with book summary versebyverse bible commentary. These messages came in visions, oracles, dreams, parables, and the like. Adapted from the book of hosea in the bible, we journey with gomer, a harlot lost in her sin until hosea, a prophet of god, offers to marry her and redeem her life from darkness. A novel and millions of other books are available for instant. The story is inspired by the book of hosea from the bible.
Ephraim feeds on wind, and pursues the east wind continually. Redeeming love by francine rivers goodreads share book. Hoseas wife and children when the lord began to speak through hosea, the lord said to him, go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty. Family fiction is the most comprehensive christian fiction resource providing news, interviews, and information about books, movies, and authors. Based on the book of hosea from the bible, where god told the prophet, hosea to marry the prostitute, gomer. I have read mathew 2 15 and hosea 11 it seems that mathew leaves out the first part of the verse. Without doubt biblical fiction is the most popular genre of christian fiction and its easy to see why with plot twists and a christcentred core, stories based in and around the bible are a winning formula. Throughout the book, hosea pictured the people turning away from the lord and turning toward other gods 4.
Hosea has been charged by god with a difficult taskmarry. This book helped me understand and relate to them as not books written for another audience. He makes a treaty with assyria and sends olive oil to egypt. The book motivated the reader to read the books of hosea,amos, micah and isaiah one more time. One opinion is that the refer ences to judah are from two judaic redactions of the book.
The first book in the series, heart of a lion, featured a young noah struggling with a frightening word from god. The book of hosea says that, during hosea s lifetime, the kings of the northern kingdom, their aristocratic supporters, and the priests had led the people away from the law of god, as given in the pentateuch. Book titles based on lines from the bible theres a million books based on lines from the bible. The book is a retelling of the prophet hosea from the bible. Book titles based on lines from the bible 195 books. God sees the sin of his own people, and will reckon with them for it. This book was written based off of the book of hosea in the bible. The novel is a retelling of the biblical story of hosea, the prophet called by god to. Fiction favours the facts book 2 is a second collection of 22 microtales from the bible tales newsletter.
This paper proposes a formcritical rereading of hosea based upon synchronic literary criteria. Hosea is not referring to jesus, but to the children of israel. Often, we do not recognize the derivation of these bible names, but this prophets name would be joseph in english. Nov 01, 20 hoseas book is the first of the minor prophetsthe last 12 books of the old testament. Moreover, he makes a covenant with assyria, and oil is carried to egypt. And his name is related to the name joshua, which means salvation. Hoseas love for gomer is only a picture of gods love for israel, because all the while that israel was unfaithful to god, he was providing for them, and they took his blessings and used them for their idol worship. The book of hosea consists of fourteen chapters, which was the record for a minor prophet until zechariah tied it a couple centuries later. The book of hosea stands first in the division of the bible called the book of the twelve in the apocrypha cf. Like amos, hosea was a prophet who was active in the northern kingdom of israel hosea also refers to israel as ephraim and samaria. Im always a little leary of fiction books that focus this much on s. The first installment of a dark and intense biblical fiction series based on. Hosea s life and marriage were used in an analogous way to demonstrate the waywardness of israel and the steadfast, intimately personal love of yhwh. Hoseas primary audience was ephraim another name for the northern kingdom, israel, which is mentioned 35 times in the book.
But of course the real story of this book isnt the story of hosea and gomer, its the story of god and israel. True worship has all but disappeared from the northern tentribe kingdom of israel. Bible commentaries speculate that this book in the ot may be an allegory about the lord hosea and the rebellious nation of israel gomer. A number of scholars, however, contend that the book has a fair number of redactional interpolations. Horrible christian fiction, kidnapping and sex trafficking edition. What follows is a period of unrest and political instability. Although most of the book i did enjoy, it could have been about 100 pages shorter. The story of gomer has been performed across the nation, reaching thousands of people with the message of gods faithfulness and love. Genesis by jeffrey wergin, assassins by tim lahaye, apollyon by tim lahaye, soul harvest.
An alternate reading of the book suggests that god had hosea marry another woman besides gomer, with hosea being an example of god and his two wives being an example of both judah and israel. The book of hosea is the first of the twelve minor prophets. The word of the lord that came to hosea son of beeri during the reigns of uzziah, jotham, ahaz and hezekiah, kings of judah, and during the reign of jeroboam son of jehoash king of israel. This retelling of the biblical story of gomer and hosea set during the time of the. Return, o israel, to the lord your god, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. According to the superscription, hosea began his prophetic activity during the reign of jeroboam ii c. Under the rulership of jeroboam ii, there is material prosperity in israel, but that wanes soon after his death. As a result, the english translations of the book sometimes offer very different readings of the same passage. Family fiction christian fiction books, novels, movies. Jerome specified that one of the divisions of the jews sacred books was the book of the twelve prophets, which evidently included the book of hosea to fill out the number 12. I began to memorize individual verses while in the awana program and learned about different bible characters at church and at home. Biblebased fiction the facts of the bible rounded out with imaginative detail to help us recognise the lives and feelings of real people.
During the time of the minor prophets, the nation of israel had divided into two separate countries, each with its own government. Bestselling author francine rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of gomer and hosea in a tale set. Israel is the lords bride, but israel has instead joined itself to baal, the false god worshiped in syriapalestine. Its a beautiful love story with themes running through it from the book of hosea in the bible. The princes of judah are like those who move boundary markers. Rowling, the hunger games by suzanne collins, the fault in our stars by john.
Hosea was a young preacher in the nation of israel, the northern kingdom, and he was a. The 1997 version is basically the same as the original, but was edited to remove any descriptions of the love scenes and any coarse language to make it suitable for the christian. Come back you have fallen because of your sins, but i love you and will bring you home. The jews vainly thought to secure the egyptians by a present of the produce of their country. This work of fiction was well researched and written. Chapters 1 and 3 are historical narrative of the life and times of hosea, while chapter 2 is poetry. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood. They are short stories about bible characters or events. This book is loosely based on the bible story of hosea.
Love never fails michael hosea and angel quotes from novels, book. The book is a mixture of prose and poetry mostly poetry. Based on the book of hosea from the bible, where god told the prophet, hosea to marry the prostitute, gomer go marry a prostitute 4. It is not only a story of redeeming love, but unconditional love too. Redeeming love, by francine rivers is a historical romance novel set in the 1850s gold rush in california. The californiabased author francine rivers doesnt travel for speaking. His first foray into biblical fiction was the lions of judah series, which revolved around the ancestry of christ. Hosea his name meaning to save, salvation is the first of the socalled minor prophets. My introduction to the bible began with flannel graphs in sunday school and bedtime stories read by my mom out of an illustrated childrens bible. Book of hosea overview insight for living ministries. These twelve prophets are comprised in one single book in the hebrew bible and are called the twelve. Hosea chapter 12 kjv king james version verse 6 is the key verse, and it tells israel to turn to the lord, keep mercy and judgement, and wait on thy god continually. Just too much detail in the story telling nothing sexual.
Love never fails michael hosea and angel redeeming love. A childrens book about the power of words by brandon walden and kristen and kevin howdeshell jun 12, 2018 4. In rivers book, michael is aware of the story of hosea and gomer. So with that in mind weve pulled out our top ten biblical fiction books to wet your appetite. Past scholarship generally argues that the book of hosea articulates a message of judgment against israel in three basic parts, hosea. Book of hosea, also spelled osee, the first of 12 old testament books that bear the names of the minor prophets, considered as one book, the twelve, in the jewish canon. Israel, the northern country consisting of ten tribes, and judah, the remaining two tribes in the south. A retelling of the biblical love story of gomer and hosea, set against the romantic backdrop of the california gold rush. And like the book of amos, the book of hosea somehow made its way south to jerusalem where it was copied, edited, and preserved to serve as gods word for future generations. Upon reaching sacramento while looking for work she again meets joseph hochschild, who has built his new store, and she stays with him, knowing that. I read redeeming love based on my best friends constant suggestion to do so. Gods love for israel, a nation of people more interested in themselves than in gods direction for their lives, shines through clearly against the darkness of their idolatry and injustice hosea 14.
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