Hebrew prophet of the 8th century BCE whose book uses his own troubled marriage as a sustained metaphor for Israel's unfaithfulness to God — one of the earliest and most vivid uses of marriage as a theological metaphor.
Book of Hosea: the covenant between God and Israel is like a marriage — Israel's worship of Baal is spiritual adultery. Hosea's marriage to Gomer (who was unfaithful) becomes a living parable of divine faithfulness to a wayward people. The concept of hesed (loving-kindness) as the foundation of the covenant.
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