Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Preface/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ The Case of 'Hosea'/ Carole R. Fontaine/ Hosea/ Carole R. Fontaine/ A Response to 'Hosea'/ Alice A. Keefe/ The Female Body, the Body Politic and the Land: A Sociopolitical Reading of Hosea 1-2/ Yvonne Sherwood/ Boxing Gomer: Controlling the Deviant Woman in Hosea 1-3/ Naomi Graetz/ God is to Israel as Husband is to Wife: The Metaphoric Battering of Hosea's Wife/ Francis Landy/ Fantasy and the Displacement of Pleasure: Hosea 2.4-17/ John Goldingay/ Hosea 1-3, Genesis 1-4 and Masculist Interpretation/ Mayer I. Gruber/ Marital Fidelity and Intimacy: A View from Hosea 4/ Maragaret S. Odell/ I Will Destroy Your Mother: The Obliteration of a Cultic Role in Hosea 4.4-6/ Helen Schüngel-Straumann/ God as Mother in Hosea 11/ Marie-Thieres Wacker/ Traces of the Goddess in the Book of Hosea/ Part II/ On the Pornoprophetics of Sexual Violence/ Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes/ The Metaphorization of Woman in Prophetic Speech: An Analysis of Ezekiel 23/ Athalya Brenner/ On Prophetic Propaganda and the Politics of 'Love': The Case of Jeremiah/ Robert P. Carroll/ Desire under the Terebinths: On Pornographic Representation in the Prophets - A Response/ Pamela Gordon and Harold C. Washington/ Rape as a Military Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible/ F. Rachel Magdalene/ Ancient Near Eastern Treaty-Curses and the Ultimate Texts of Terror: A Study of the Language of Divine Sexual Abuse in the Prophetic Corpus/ Part III/ Should We Trust the God of the Prophets?/ Nancy R. Bowen/ Can God be Trusted? Confronting the Deceptiove God/ Bibliography