Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets

The promise and peril in reading the Minor Prophets

Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets confronts the unique challenges presented by this daunting section of the Old Testament. Authors from a variety of perspectives consider questions about hermeneutics and composition, reception history, theodicy, metaphors and characterization, and theology. These essays provide insights from the history of interpretation and the latest in scholarship. Contributors include David G. Firth, Brittany N. Melton, Isabelle M. Hamley, Tchavdar S. Hadjiev, Heath A. Thomas, Thomas Renz, S. D. Snyman, Anthony R. Petterson, Beth M. Stovell, Julie Woods, and John Goldingay.

David G. Firth (PhD, University of Pretoria) is tutor in Old Testament at Trinity College, Bristol, and research associate of the University of the Free State. He is the author of Including the Stranger (New Studies in Biblical Theology), 1 & 2 Samuel (Apollos Old Testament Commentary), and The Message of Joshua.

Brittany N. Melton (PhD, University of Cambridge) is associate professor of Old Testament at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and research fellow of the University of the Free State. She is the author of Where is God in the Megilloth? and coeditor of Reading Lamentations Intertextually and Reading Esther Intertextually.