Minor Prophets

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 261 words | Copyright

Minor Prophets (Aram., terei asar, ‘twelve’). The collection of twelve shorter prophetic books in the Hebrew scriptures. It includes the books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakuk, Zephariah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

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