Hosea

Hosea

In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea ( hoh-ZEE-ə or hoh-ZAY-ə; Hebrew: הוֹשֵׁעַ, romanized: Hōšēaʿ, lit. 'Salvation'), also known as Osee (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. Hosea is often seen as a "prophet of doom", but underneath his message of destruction is a promise of restoration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hosea has received more than 1,257,846 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Hosea is the 345th most popular religious figure (up from 359th in 2019).

Hosea is most famous for being the author of the Book of Hosea.