Who is Hosea from When God Was a Woman and what is their importance?

According to the author, Hosea was a "minor" Hebrew prophet. Hosea describes his wife, Gomer, as behaving as a qadishtu in order to demean her actions and equate them with rebellious Israel's. This is in line with the Levites establishing a controlling code of sexual morality for women, which condemns the ancient ways of the Goddess as orgiastic, evil, shameful, and sinful. The biblical text is confusing, when Yahweh is ranting about Israel not being willing to turn from its evil ways and when Hosea is describing his freedom-loving wife.