12 Facts About Hosea

Hosea 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 writings 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 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.

Name Hosea, seems to have been common, being derived from a related verb meaning salvation.

Numbers 13:16 states that Hosea was the original name of Joshua, son of Nun until Moses gave him the longer, theophoric name Yehoshua incorporating an abbreviated form of the Tetragrammaton.

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Hosea knew she would be unfaithful, as God says this to him immediately in the opening statements of the book.

One of the early writing prophets, Hosea used his own experience as a symbolic representation of God and Israel.

Book of Hosea was a severe warning to the northern kingdom against the growing idolatry being practiced there; the book was a dramatic call to repentance.

The Book of Hosea has been used in Qur'anic exegesis by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, especially in reference to Qur'anic verses which speak of the backsliding of Israel.

Several haftarot are taken from Hosea, including those for Vayetze, Vayishlach, Bamidbar, Naso, Shabbat Shuvah, and Tisha B'Av.

Jewish tradition holds that the tomb of Hosea is a structure located in the Jewish cemetery of Safed; however, Emil G Hirsch and Victor Ryssel, writing in The Jewish Encyclopedia, say that this tradition is "historically worthless".

Hosea is portrayed by Elijah Alexander in the film Amazing Love: The Story of Hosea.