I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Hosea: the Author of the Material. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Hosea: the Author of the Material. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. It was written during the dark period in the history of Israel. Hosea wrote this book when the Northern Kingdom of Israel was in a period of decline and ultimately fell in the eighth century B.C. It was written at a period when the Kingdom of Judah and the Northern Kingdom of Israel both became a vassal state under the Assyrian Empire (HarperCollins Bible Commentary, 636-637). Like any other book of the Bible, Hosea was written as a result of divine revelationBibleinspiration from God. Israel had turned their hearts away from God and Hosea was about the story of how God sought to redeem the people of Israel back to himself. The book was written at a time when the Israelites were worshipping idols, such as Baal, the Canaanite god and worshipping the calves of Jeroboam II.

Each verse of the third chapter of Hosea had unique messages. The first verse explains the steadfast love of God for the people of Israel, despite their continual worship of idols. “Yahweh commands Hosea to love an adulterous woman, that is, to make a deep emotional investment that will leave him intensely vulnerable.” (The IVP Women's Bible Commentary, 438). God instructed Hosea to go and marry an adulterous woman that was married and loved by her husband. The passage was trying to show the adulterous nature of the children of Israel as they turned their hearts away from God and worshipped other gods. The first verse exposes the hypocrisy of the Israelites to the world as they looked pious to their contemporaries, but they were actually sinners. The Collegeville commentary refers to Hosea as the faithful spouse and calls Gomer the adulterous sinner, the people that are the source of target in this passage and are compared to the unfaithful harlot are the religious and civil leaders of Israel (McDarby, 113).