caa a22 4500 37889384X CHVBK 20180305123501.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040906xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.334 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.334 Kelle Brad E. 1. Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA 92106, USA. A Reconsideration of lekassôt in Hosea 2,11 (MT) [Elektronische Daten] [Brad E. Kelle] Hosea 2,11 in the MT (Eng. 2,9) is not intelligible in its literal, grammatical sense: >>I will reclaim my wool and my linen in order to cover [lekassôt] her nakedness.<< Accordingly, both ancient versions and modern commentaries have interpreted and/or emended the verse in various ways. Even so, some of the early versional evidence and various ancient Near Eastern legal texts dealing with divorce stipulations suggest that the verse's infinitive (lekassôt) should not be taken from the common root ksh, >>to cover,<< but from the geminate root kss, >>to calculate, apportion, reckon.<< In the relevant divorce texts, the husband of an adulterous woman is entitled to reclaim a calculated sum of her dowry, gifts, and provisions. Thus, this reading of Hos 2,11 sets the verse nicely within the chapter's marriage/divorce metaphor as it draws upon one of the primary images found in the juridical principles of the ancient Near Eastern texts. © Walter de Gruyter Religion: general nationallicence Christianity nationallicence Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Walter de Gruyter 116/3(2004-09-06), 334-347 0044-2526 116:3<334 2004 116 zatw https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.334 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2004.116.3.334 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kelle Brad E. 1. Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA 92106, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Walter de Gruyter 116/3(2004-09-06), 334-347 0044-2526 116:3<334 2004 116 zatw CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter