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English: A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex.This file contains the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets (the eighth book in Nevi'im).Unfortunately the high-resolution file only contains the last five extant folios of the book, which include parts of Zephaniah and Zechariah, and the entire text of Malachi.
English: The Leningrad Codex (Twelve Minor Prophets) from an old fascimile edition. The twelve minor prophets include Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. This file also contains the masoretic information for the end of Nevi'im.
The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve"; Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
Twelve Minor Prophets In the Hebrew Bible the Twelve Minor Prophets are a single collection edited in the Second Temple period, but the collection is broken up in Christian Bibles. [64] With the exception of Jonah, which scholars regard as fictional, there exists an original core of prophetic tradition behind each book: [65] [66]
These names do not imply that the major prophets are more important than the minor prophets, but refer to the major prophetic books being much longer than the minor ones. [3] The books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel have 66, 52 and 48 chapters, respectively, while the minor prophets merely have 1 to 14 chapters per book. [6]
The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.It is attributed to the prophet Nahum.The historical setting of Nahum as a prophet was 663 BCE to 612 BCE, while the historical setting that produced the book of Nahum is debated, with proposed timeframes ranging from shortly after the fall of Thebes in 663 BCE to the Maccabean period around 175-165 BCE. [1]
The Hebrew Bible counts Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles as one book each, the 12 minor prophets are one book, and also Ezra and Nehemiah form a single book. The differences between the modern Hebrew Bible and other versions of the Old Testament such as the Samaritan Pentateuch , the Syriac Peshitta , the Latin Vulgate , the Greek Septuagint , the ...
A sixth-century date for Obadiah is a "near consensus" position among scholars. [16] Obadiah 1–9 contains parallels to the Book of Jeremiah 49:7–22 . The passage in the Book of Jeremiah dates from the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim (604 BCE), and therefore Obadiah 11–14 seems to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem by ...