Zechariah is a two part, postexile book. The Zechariah Book’s author was a priest whose name was Zechariah.

Haggai is the edited notes of four or five pithy, succinct messages. The four or five terse, laconic communiqués that Haggai conveyed to the Israelites who were living in the land of Judah was sent to them in 520 B.C.

Zephaniah is a powerful pronouncement against and a persuasive promise for God’s specially chosen people – the Israelite people, who were living in the land of Judah.

Habakkuk was a perplexed prophet who scribed in a short missive his burdened thoughts that would become an entry in the Biblical canon as one of the minor prophet books.

Nahum is two poems. An Elkoshite family clan prophet by the name of Nahum scribed the ‘book’ that was named after him sometime between 663 B.C. and 612 B.C.

Micah is the edited ruminations of a self-identified prophet whose name means ‘who is like Yahweh’. The resulting communiqués were compiled and became the Micah Book.

Jonah is a seminal event in Jonah’s life that was scribed to leave as a true account for future generations from what he heard about Jonah.

Obadiah was scribed to indict the country of Edom. The Obadiah ‘Book’ was named after the minor prophet who scribed this one chapter denunciation.

Amos is a doomsday prophetic transcript. Amos articulated his dire warnings over 2,760 years ago.

Joel was a prophet who God gave an epiphany. Joel’s vocational call from God was to be a prophet to His special chosen people who were living in Israel’s southern kingdom which was called Judah.