The Old Testament Library <subTitle>A Commentary. Hosea</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Mays, James Luther</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">(1921-2015)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>The Westminster</publisher> <dateIssued>1969</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>190tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Once a commentary is in print, the opinions and judgements contained therein take on a certainty and finality which at places exceeds the confidence felt by the exegete who wrote them. The demands of a manuscript rob one of the luxury and honesty of remaining tentative and undecided before ambiguous problems. That is particularly true for a commentary on Hosea. The book is notorious for the difficulties of its text, and the way in which Hosea’s sayings were committed to literature raises formidable problems for literary analysis.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">James Luther Mays</note> <subject> <topic>Hosea -- Comment</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">220.7</classification> <classification authority="ddc">T374-L70</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0664221556</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/1/25/51bv3FErmsL.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/1/25/51bv3FErmsL.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg"/> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070459.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>