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EDITOR'S FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: A Metaphor's Fatal Attraction
1 "You Have the Forehead of a Whore" The Rhetoric of a Metaphor
Biblical Metaphors as Representations of Hebrew Reality 15
Metaphors of Power and Punishment 18
How Metaphors Work
Marriage as a Controlling Metaphor 25
Male Prestige in the Marriage Metaphor 27
Marriage, Sexuality, and the Female Body 30
Conclusion 33
2 "Is She Not My Wife?" Prophets, Audiences, and Expectations
Female Powerlessness, Male Voyeurism 40
The Feminization of Cities 44
"Is She Not My Wife?" Rhetoric and Audience in Hosea 45
"You Have the Forehead of a Whore" Rhetoric and Audience in Jeremiah 52
"The Lady Is a Tramp": Rhetoric and Audience in Ezekiel 58
Conclusion 64
3 "Am I Not Her Husband?" The Unpredictable and Unimaginable God
God, Gendering, and Power 78
Monotheism 80
4 "Yet I Will Remember My Covenant with You" The World of Romance and Rape
Till Death Do Us Part 88
The Vulnerable Male 90
"I Will Seduce You": Romance Rhetoric in Hosea
"I Have Loved You with an Everlasting Love" Romance Rhetoric in Jeremiah 93
"My Fair Lady": Romance Rhetoric in Ezekiel
Resisting Romance and Rape Rhetoric 98
A Metaphor Gone Awry 104
Metaphors Hurt 106
Metaphors as Pointing Fingers 110
A Metaphor of Brohenheartedness 113
NOTES
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