Hosea
![An 18th-century Russian [[icon]] of the prophet Hosea ([[Iconostasis]] of [[Transfiguration of Jesus|Transfiguration]] Church, [[Kizhi]] monastery, [[Karelia]], [[Russia]])](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Hosea.jpg)
In the
Hebrew Bible,
Hosea ( or ; ), also known as
Osee (), son of
Beeri, was an 8th-century BC prophet in Israel and the nominal primary author of the
Book of Hosea. He is the first of the
Twelve Minor Prophets, whose collective writings were aggregated and organized into a single book in the
Jewish Tanakh by the
Second Temple period (forming the last book of the
Nevi'im) but which are distinguished as individual books in
Christianity. Hosea is often seen as a "prophet of doom", but underneath his message of destruction is a promise of restoration. The
Talmud claims that he was the greatest prophet of his generation. The period of Hosea's ministry extended to some sixty years, and he was the only prophet of Israel of his time who left any written prophecy. Though its date is contested among scholars, the majority agree that the bulk of the book was probably composed around the times of
Jeroboam II of
Israel (c. 793–753 BC).
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