Explore: Minor Prophets

Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve"; Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets";

Aḥaronim) include the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets. The Jewish tradition counts eight books in Nevi'im out of twenty-four

comprising the Torah (the five Books of Moses), the Nevi'im (the Books of the Prophets), and the Ketuvim ('Writings', eleven books). Different branches of Judaism

historical Ezekiel and was closely associated with the Temple. The Minor Prophets are one book in the Hebrew Bible, and many (though not all) modern scholars

12 are known as the minor prophets. These names do not imply that the major prophets are more important than the minor prophets, but refer to the major

the purported authors of the books listed as the major prophets and minor prophets) along with the biblical reference to their office. The second list

not the achievement or importance of the prophets. In comparison to the books of the Twelve Minor Prophets, whose books are short and grouped together

(640–609 BCE) and is attributed a book bearing his name among the Twelve Minor Prophets. His name is commonly transliterated Sophonias in Bibles translated

son of Pethuel". It forms part of the Book of the twelve minor prophets or the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and is a book in its own right in

The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXII gr) is a Greek manuscript of a revision of the Septuagint dated to the 1st century BC and the