Hosea: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Bible 24)

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by  Francis I. Andersen

HOSEA
VOLUME 24

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THE ANCHOR BIBLE
HOSEA
A New Translation
with
Introduction and Commentary
Francis I. Andersen
and
David Noel Freedman
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Bible O.T. Hosea. English. Andersen-Freedman. 1980.
Hosea, a new translation with introduction and
commentary.
(The Anchor Bible; v. 24)
Bibliography: p. 79.
Includes index.
l. Bible. O.T. Hosea-Commentaries.
l. Andersen, Francis I., 1925 - II. Freedman,
David Noel, 1922- III. Title. IV. Series:
Anchor Bible; v. 24
BS192.2.Al 1964.G3 vol. 24 [BS1565.3] 220.7'7s [224'.6'077]
ISBN: 0-385-00768-X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-9008
Copyright © 1980 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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First Edition
Third Printing
1983
To the Memory
of our teacher
William Foxwell Albright

PREFACE
This is the first of five volumes on the Book of the Twelve Prophets and
with the companion, second volume of the group, on Amos and Micah,
has been underway for a decade. Andersen will write two further volumes
with six further minor prophets: Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah in the first;
and, in the second, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. Carol and Eric
Meyers of Duke University are preparing a commentary on Haggai, Zecha
riah, and Malachi.
We began work on these volumes while we were members of the Gradu
ate Theological Union at Berkeley, Andersen serving on the faculty of the
Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Freedman on the faculty of San
Francisco Theological Seminary. We continued to collaborate by cor
respondence and during periods of study at the Albright Institute of Ar
chaeological Research (AJAR) in Jerusalem, and at The University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. We acknowledge the support of these institutions,
and of Macquarie University, where Andersen now teaches; the Australian
Institute of Archaeology for aid to Andersen; .and the American Council
of Learned Societies, for aid to Freedman.
Scholarly succor has been abundant. Freedman has several times
discussed Hosea with the members of the Biblical Colloquium, whom he
thanks; and Andersen has profited from collaboration with Dean Forbes,
of Palo Alto, California, in computer studies of the Hebrew Bible. Leona
Running, of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, typed the
manuscript with the competence only a Semitist could bring to bear.
M. O'Connor, of Doubleday and The University of Michigan, edited the
manuscript and made an honest effort not to be hedged in with thom
bushes and walled in with a wall (Hos 2:8).
FRANCIS I. ANDERSEN
North Ryde, New South Wales
DAVID NOEL FREEDMAN
Ann Arbor, Michigan
St. Andrew's Day, 1978