Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Book of Hosea" in English language version.
... 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
At the heart of the historical context presumed by the book of Hosea are the realities of Assyrian imperialism in the 8th century BCE. [...] Many scholars see most, if not all, of the book as originating (in either oral or written form) with the 8th-century BCE prophet Hosea