Reading and Hearing the Book of the Twelve

The essays presented in this volume challenge commonly held assumptions about the prophetic books from Hosea to Malachi, also known as the Minor Prophets, the Book of the Twelve, or merely the Twelve. Never before in the history of the discipline have so many scholars explored the implications of ancient traditions treating these twelve prophetic writings as a single corpus. Reading and Hearing the Book of the Twelve brings readers into this fascinating dialogue. The first half of the book presents various models for reading this prophetic corpus, while the latter portion focuses on insights that appear when one begins to listen to constituent elements as part of a larger whole. This endeavor arises from the Society of Biblical Literature's Seminar on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve and from a special session of the 1997 SBL International Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.