Minor prophet
A
minor prophet is a book in the
Minor Prophets section of the
Hebrew Bible, also known to Christians as the
Old Testament. Twelve individuals have had their names attributed to a section of the Hebrew Bible which has become known as the "Books of the Minor Prophets" or more often known as the "Minor Prophets". In Jewish sources, the collective
Aramaic term
Trei Asar ("twelve") is also used.
In the Hebrew Bible the writings of the minor prophets are counted as a single book, in Christian Bibles as twelve individual books. The "Minor Prophets" are listed below in order of their appearance in Hebrew and Western Christian bibles:
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Hosea*
Joel*
Amos*
Obadiah*
Jonah*
Micah*
Nahum*
Habakkuk*
Zephaniah*
Haggai*
Zechariah*
MalachiThe
Septuagint of the eastern churches has the order: Hosea, Amos, Micah, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, the rest as above. It also puts the Minor Prophets before, instead of, after the
Major prophets.
The term "minor" refers to the books' lengths, not their importance. See Major Prophets for the longer books of prophecies in the
Bible and the
Tanakh.
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Prophetic Midrash: Stories about prophets from ancient and modern sources
