2.6:chosen passage: Hosea 11:1-11 – “When Israel was a child . . .”
1. What is it that makes you particular passage a ‘unit’ which fits together?
o Are there ‘beginning markers’? that is, words or phrases which seem to indicate the beginning of a new section of writing?
o Beginning markers might include a title or a shift in time, place, people, theme, style.
o Are there ‘ending markers’? that is, words or phrases which seem to indicate a conclusion or a summary statement.
2. When you look at the verses which come before or after your particular passage, why were those verses left out from the passage designated for you to study?
3. What are the literary clues which make the case that the verses selected for your passage function as a unit which is set apart from the rest of the chapter or the book of the Bible it is in?
