The Book of Gomer
A Love Story of the Sacred Marriage
A doomed romance. A feminist and esoteric retelling of The Bible’s Book of Hosea.
Gomer, a fiercely independent woman, is forced to marry Hosea, the local prophet of YHWY. And she must contend not only with her husband’s piety, but with the King of Israel, a priestess of SHRH, and even the God and the Goddess themselves. All this as apocalypse looms large in the threat of an invading army.
From the Author
Having been raised a conservative southern Baptist, I have since lived a life of great inner change, leaving behind answers of false certainty and embracing the questions of our mysteries, finding within this boundless world that love, care, and acceptance are the better angels over the devils of dogma, control, and damnation. This story was born from that journey.
The Book of Gomer: A Love Story of the Sacred Marriage is about the biblical characters of Gomer and Hosea from the Old Testament. It is set in their time and place of Shomron, the Watchtower City on a Hill, capitol of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
This novella, however, does not have the same purpose as the one recorded in the Bible, a story which reinforces the patriarchal beliefs of God. Instead, I use these two characters and cast them as icons to stand for the deeper and larger roles of He and She, as the spiritual successors of Adam and Eve, as mirrors of Mary and Joseph conceiving an earthly divinity, as the human embodiments of the God (YHWH) and the Goddess (SHRH), and as the catalyst to a more whole humanity. As such, it is an alchemical story meant to heal the original wounding of our world: that which separated out Woman from Man, God from Goddess, and the sacred from the mundane.