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By ELSE KRAGELUND HOLT. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 194. Sheffield: SHEFFIELD ACADEMIC PRESS, 1995. Pp. 160. [pounds]27.50, $41.

This revised University of Aarhus Ph.D. dissertation discusses the traditions about Israel's past available to Hosea and how he and subsequent redactors of the book used, understood, interpreted, and reworked them. The book of Hosea, according to Holt, is a "patchwork" made up of two collections of prophecies going back to Hosea or his immediate circle (a discussion of the book's peculiar diction would have been in ...