The Minor Prophets: Twelve or One?

Scripture-ish · Jun 4, 2026 · 38m

Should you read the Minor Prophets as if these twelve different prophetic voices together constitute a single book?

I have a definite answer to this question: hmm, maybe.

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This is a thing that scholars like to talk about—or, at least, they used to. Maybe it’s not so in fashion now to engage in scholarly arguments over the unity of the Book of the Twelve. (That’s the name scholars often use for the Minor Prophets when engaging in these discussions: the Book of the Twelve, which is an ancient name for this…