Hosea | |
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 An 18th-century Russian icon of the prophet Hosea (Iconostasis of Transfiguration Church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia) | |
| Venerated in | Judaism Christianity Islam |
| Major shrine | Safed, Israel |
| Feast | October 17 (Orthodox Christianity) |
| Attributes | raising his hand in benediction, holding a scroll with the words Ex Egipto vocavi filium meum |
| Major works | Book of Hosea |
In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea (/hoʊˈziːə/ hoh-ZEE-ə or /hoʊˈzeɪə/ hoh-ZAY-ə; Hebrew: הוֹשֵׁעַ, romanized: Hōšēaʿ, lit. 'Salvation'), also known as Osee[1] (Ancient Greek: Ὡσηέ, romanized: Hōsēé), 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. [2] 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.[3] 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).[4][5]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Calès, Jean Marie (1911). "Osee". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Smith, William Robertson; Robinson, Henry Wheeler (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 784–786.
- ^ Pesachim 87a
- ^ Gruber, Mayer I. (2017). Hosea: A Textual Commentary. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-567-67175-2.
... most scholars in the nineteenth-twenty-first centuries have more or less taken it for granted that virtually all of the book of Hosea is to be dated to the reign of Jeroboam II
- ^ ”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)”
