Justice and Intimacy—Micah and Hosea

Abstract

LIKE AMOS, HOSEA AND MICAH were independent prophets, making public statements in poetic form, saying things that people did not want to hear but could not forget. Hosea was apparently a native of the northern kingdom; he began to prophesy during the reign of Jeroboam II (c. 750 BCE) and evidently continued until approximately the time of the fall of Samaria in 722....