Hengstenberg in his Die authentie des .Penta teuches, Erste,- Band, s. 49-82, has many impor tant remarks on this book of prophecy, especially shewing how much its style and form are based on the language and peculiar idioms of the Pentateuch. Many of the clauses adduced by him and others, as Keil and Havemick, may be di,missed as irrele vant, and others regarded as based on traditionary lore ; but there remain other phrases and allusions, the origin and use of which can only be accounted for by the existence of the written Pentateuch. One cannot but remark, too, the allusions to historic scenes of ancient and hallowed association, but now debased and polluted by idolatry. Bethel, Mizpab, Shechem, and Gilgal, once so famous, were the haunts of the men who kissed the calves. Correspondences in style between Hosea and Amos are adduced by Baur (Amos, p. 127) and by Haver nick (Einleit.), but they are not all to be relied on. Coincidences have been observed also between Hosea and Jeremiah, and the examples in this case are more decided and conclusive. No great stress can be laid on supposed similarities of phrase in Hosea and Isaiah (Kueper, Yeremias librorum sacrorum interpres, etc., p. 67).
Of commentaries on Hosea may be mentioned Burrough's Exposition of Hosea, Lond. 1643 ; Seb. Schmidt, Comment. in Hoseam, Francf. 1687 ; Ed. Pococke, Comment. on Hosea, Oxf. 1683; Manger, Commentarius in floseam, Campis. 1782 ; Chr. Fr. Kuinoel, Hosea Oracula, Hebr. et Lat. per petua annotatione Lipsix 1792 ; L. Jos.
Uhland, Annotationes Iloseam, Tub. 1785.
1797 ; Horsley, Hosea, translated fronz the He. I brew, with Notes, explanatory and critical, Lond. I 1801-4 ; Stuck, Hoseas Protheta, Lipske 1828 ; Schrbder, Hoschea, 7oel, und APIZOS, ue3ersetzt und erldutert, Leipz. 1829 ; Rtickert, Die Hebraischen Propheten uebersetzt, etc., 1831; Hitzig, Die 12 kleinen Proph. erkldr1,1838 ; sec. ed. IS52 ; Hes selberg, Uebersetzung mid Azislegung, 1838 ; The Twelve .11Thzor Prophets; by E. Henderson, D.D., London 1845 ; Umbreit, Praktischer Commentar Ube,- die kleinen Propheten, Hamburg 1846 ; Sim son, Der Prophet Hosea erkldrt, Hamburg 1851; , Drake, Notes on Hosea, Cambridge, 1853; Pusey, Minor Prophets, i861.—J. E.