This week the professor continues his series on the prophets of ancient Israel. Last week we considered the foundational prophet Amos. This week, his near contemporary in the eighth century B.C., the ...

We hear it in the air: “Information is power.” Some even say enviously, “Well, some lucky people are super-informed. But we are still getting all our information from the news.” Everywhere you look, ...

In many ways, nations resemble people. Just like human beings, nations go through mood swings. Sometimes their populations are ecstatic, and at other times a psychological malaise hovers over the land ...

It is not every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The ...

Hosea lived during the 8th century BCE, and prophesied for over 60 years. He was the last prophet of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called in his prophecies, “Ephraim.” Hosea the prophet lived during ...

Joseph Descans will sign copies of his biblical fiction “Hosea: The Prophet Who Married a Prostitute” at his meet-and-greet session during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023, on April 22, ...

The first reading for Mass on July 6, from Hosea, seemed tailor-made for what was arguably the most bizarre and constitutionally perilous 36 hours in U.K. political history. The previous day, two of ...

For my 18th birthday, my best friend gave me a gift I treasure to this day — a paperback copy of Milton Steinberg’s “As a Driven Leaf.” I had just graduated from Yeshiva of Flatbush high school, where ...