TY - BOOK AU - Mays, James Luther AU - AU - TI - The Old Testament Library SN - 0664221556 U1 - 220.7 CY - U.S.A KW - Hosea -- Comment N2 - 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 UR - https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/1/25/51bv3FErmsL.jpg ER -