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The Book of the Twelve Prophets

The 12 prophetic books from Hosea up to and including Malachi, seem to have been collected in the fourth or third century BC to form a unit. This unit is known as the book of the Twelve Prophets, also called the Dodekapropheton in Greek.

The name Dodekapropheton

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