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Weather imagery plays a major role in Hosea. Hosea 2 recalls the image of an unfaithful wife; Hosea 4:2–3 describes the withering of the land; in 6:3; 10:12; 14:6, the several types of precipitation draw attention to the utterance of YHWH or the requested righteousness; in 9:10.13.16; 10:1; 13:5; 14:6.8, Israel is symbolised by different plants that blossom and wither, depending on their relation to Yhwh. In all of these instances, weather phenomena contribute to these images. In this article, I try to catalogue and evaluate the metaphors and concepts to look at how meteorological images convey theological and historical messages, and vice versa how historical events or sociological procedures demonstrate their consequences in nature, especially in the weather. It seems that weather imagery is used to describe the consequences of idolatry, injustice and false politics.

The right man on the right place – megfelelő embert a megfelelő helyre – tartja az angol mondás. Nyilván arról van szó, hogy egy közösségben az a kívánatos állapot, hogy ember és hivatal (hivatás) egymásra találnak. Sajnos gyakori eset, hogy ez nem így történik: vagy nem találunk megfelelő embert egy bizonyos hivatal betöltésére, s a nincs emberem (Jn 5,7) ilyen értelemben is fájóan igaz lehet; vagy pedig olyan kegyelmi ajándékokkal bőven felruházott emberrel találkozunk, aki nem kerül olyan helyre, amely megfelelne tudásának, tehetségének, adottságainak.

Psalm-singing in the Community of Therapeutae Based on De vita contemplativa by Philo of Alexandria. The Therapeutae’s ascetic devotion is characterized not only by searching the scriptures, meditation and prayer but also by singing of hymns and psalms. Hymns were composed by the principals of the community, they were those who taught the community members to sing them and they continually enriched the hymnal with new ones. The Essenes’ and Therapeutae’s psalm-singing indicates first of all the common Old Testament origin. However these religious communities had different self-identity from that of the normative Jews and this identity required for a special psalm-poetry to be accomplished. The Therapeutae’s psalms remind us of the church psalm-tradition characterized, just like the Essene hymns, by responsive singing and refrains.