Online Adult Bible Study
Join Father Ory Schultheis each Tuesday evening, 7 – 8 p.m. on the Zoom platform as he surveys the books of the Minor Prophets. Over the next twelve weeks, beginning January 20, 2026 with that evening’s discussion being an introduction, he will cover one book per week thereafter.
“Minor” has more to do with their size and scope than it has to do with the respect which was held for the prophet whose name it bears. According to one source (link below), “Minor prophets” comes from Saint Augustine, who distinguished “The Book of the Twelve” from what he termed the Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel).
The minor prophets are also known as “the Twelve.” (This is not to be confused with the twelve disciples or the twelve tribes of Israel.) In our version of the Old Testament, each of these prophets is given his own book. But in the Hebrew Bible they are consolidated into a single book, Shneim Asar (the Twelve). It is the last book of the Nevi’im (the Prophets).
The twelve Minor Prophets are: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
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