Tradition for Crisis: A Study in Hosea
What became “tradition” in the faith of ancient Israel emerged through crisis times and crisis events in which Israel found new reality disclosed concerning the governance of YHWH. Out of such a crisis, or such crises, Israel was able to formulate a more-or-less stable tradition, albeit with many variations. That tradition functioned as a lens through which Israel could “decode” its later crises. Thus the Old Testament consists, in major parts, as the on-going dynamic process of formulating and reformulating “tradition” through which it could fully discern the theological dimensions of its several lived crises. It is the author's hope that this book will evoke and empower new voices for bold truth-telling among us. (198pp. Santos Books, reprinted 2025.)
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