Following by the passage of Josiah’s reading of the law to the people; …show more content…
The citation demonstrates the normative authority that the people usually do not believe the prophet from their hometown because they know the prophet’s humble background and don’t accept the fact that they are wise and full with God’s grace.
Jacob and Moses are the two most popular and accepted national national myth of Israel; they are both very different and personify Israel in two unique ways. To answer this question, I would like to split the answer into three parts: how different Jacob and Moses are comparing to one another, their relationship to God as representatives of Israel and the perception of the prophet Hosea on both of them.
Firstly, Jacob and Moses personality are different. On the one hand, Jacob was amoral and lived off his wit: he tricked Esau to trade in his birthright for a bowl of stew (Genesis 25:29-34). One the other hand, Moses was a man of the law: he followed God’s instruction in taking the Israelites out of Egypt despite the forbidden of Pharaoh (Exodus 3-7); he received the ten commandments from God in the Mount Sinai (Exodus