The Use of the Old Testament in the Book of Hosea

In recent years there has been an avalanche of studies which have analyzed the way the New Testament writers cited and interpreted the Old Testament. This research has been augmented significantly by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, where the sectarian authors at Qumran cited OT texts believing they were experiencing the fulfillment of prophetic texts in contemporary events. The methods employed by NT writers and other Jewish groups in interpreting and quoting the OT perhaps cannot be fully appreciated and understood apart from earlier practices. As M. Fishbane has shown in his work Biblical Interpretation In Ancient Israel, the practice of citing earlier canonical texts may be observed in the OT itself. Fishbane has provided a comprehensive survey of the possible ways the OT texts may have used earlier traditions. This area of investigation has bearing not only for the history and technique of exegetical methods used by the NT writers and other Jewish interpreters, but also has implications pertinent to the acceptance of biblical books as canonical