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The two titles, “THE MINOR PROPHETS” or “THE TWELVE,” alternate as the name for a collection of writings from the pens of 12 prophets: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
“The Twelve” is the traditional Jewish title of the collection while the “Minor Prophets” originated with the Latin Vulgate translation. The term “minor” in the title does not reflect upon the importance of the books in contrast to the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel, but rather upon their much smaller size. Indeed, the ultimate author of “The Twelve,” the God of the Universe, is the same for all the prophetic writings, thereby providing these short books with equal quality, authority, validity, and power.
The period of the Minor Prophets was a time of “strife and disappointment, as prophet after prophet begged and warned, foretold and chastised” a wayward nation. However, “The Twelve” did not leave Israel with a message of hopeless judgment and defeat. In contrast, the prophets censured the present but looked far beyond and held out to Israel the promise of the Messianic Kingdom and the coming glorious Messiah.
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The Twelve Minor Prophets – Session 29
Zephaniah Lesson 1
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