activity, the editor names, besides Hosea himself, only his father, Beeri.10 Neither his place of birth nor his office is metioned, to say nothing of his age (cf. Jer 1:6*), the year of his call (cf. Is 6:1*), or similar details of his personal life. Our remaining knowledge of Hosea we owe exclusively to the fact that particulars of his life become the subject of his prophetic commission. The most important of these is Hosea’s marriage. We learn of his wife Gomer, the daughter of one Diblaim (1:3*),11