The Book of Hosea (Biblical Hebrew: סֵפֶר הוֹשֵׁעַ, romanized: Sēfer Hōšēaʿ) is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Tanakh, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament. According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the Twelve.
Set around the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Book of Hosea denounces the worship of gods other than Yahweh (the God of Israel), metaphorically comparing Israel's abandonment of Yahweh to a woman being unfaithful to her husband. According to the book's narrative, the relationship between Hosea and his unfaithful wife Gomer is comparable to the relationship between Yahweh and his unfaithful people Israel: this text "for the first time" describes the latter relationship in terms of a marriage.[1] The eventual reconciliation of Hosea and Gomer is treated as a hopeful metaphor for the eventual reconciliation between Yahweh and Israel.
Dated to c. 760–720 BC, it is one of the oldest books of the Tanakh, predating final recensions of the full Torah (Pentateuch).[2][3] Hosea is the source of the phrase "reap the whirlwind",[4] which has passed into common usage in English and other languages.
^Jerusalem Bible (1966), Introduction to the Prophets, p. 1135, London: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday and Co. Inc.
^Dearman, J. Andrew (2010). The Book of Hosea. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8028-2539-1.
^”Hosea.” Irvine, Stuart A. The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets. Edited by Julia M. O'Brien. 2021. “Much of Hosea appears to reflect the circumstances and events of the eighth century (Na'aman 2015)”
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