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See A.F. Key, “The Giving of Proper Names in the Old Testament,” Journal of Biblical Literature 83 (1954), pp. 55-59.

See Abraham Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), pp. 489–492.

G.W. Anderson, “Hosea and Yahweh: God’s Love Story,” Review and Expositor 72:4 (1975), p. 425.

The issue is not simple, of course, for in Hosea 2:5, 12, we find imagery that sounds like paid sex:

“For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers; They give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’ ... I will lay waste her vines and fig trees,

See Phyllis Bird, “‘To Play the Harlot’: An Inquiry into an Old Testament Metaphor,” in Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel, ed. Peggy L. Day (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989), pp. 75–94.

Most of the account that follows comes from John Evangelist Walsh, The Bones of St. Peter (New York: Doubleday, 1982).

Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men 1.

Origen, Commentary on Genesis, reported in Eusebius’s History of the Church 3.1.2.

Tertullian, Scorpiace 15.3.

See Hans Georg Thümmel, Die Memorien für Petrus und Paulus im Rom, Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 76 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999), pp. 6–7.