In one of the most exquisite chapters in the Hebrew Bible, the prophet imagines God struggling with how to respond to a recalcitrant people. So exasperated and hurt is God by the people’s constant ...

Hosea even seems to imply that the Northern Kingdom was addicted to such horrific cults–“They will not abandon their deeds to return to their God for a deviant spirit is in their midst…” (5:4) ...