The minor prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are post-exilic, roughly contemporary with Ezra and Nehemiah, in the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem around 450 years before the birth of Jesus.

As Jews read the Bible, Job comes well after the minor prophets, almost at the end of the book.) Advertisement Chapter 4 through Chapter 6 Z. has a weird vision of seven lamps, symbolizing God’s ...

The minor prophets Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi are post-exilic, roughly contemporary with Ezra and Nehemiah, in the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem around 450 years before the birth of Jesus.

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

The Hebrew Bible, although filled with stories of the Kingdom of Israel, there is a lack of information about Israel. The prophet Amos confronted the High Priest Amaziah in the Beit El temple in ...

The unlikely pairing of Hosea and Gomer might be one of the most unusual in the Bible, even more so than the much-better-known David and Goliath or Jonah and the whale. Hosea was commanded by God ...

Nahum 63 Content One of the twelve minor prophets in the Bible, Nahum is the prophet who foretold the downfall of Nineveh and the overthrow of Assyria. This simple yet charming name means ‘contented’ ...

Another section of the Hebrew Bible consists of the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor," i.e., brief, prophets). Here again, it's important to understand how these developed.

That classification is called Law because the larger subject portion of those first 5 books of the Bible detail the laws God gave to Israel. Those books, also, are called the Pentateuch (5 books) and ...