And Paul HouseвЂ™s book, though technical, is an important for helping read and understand the Minor Prophets. For that reason, a unified study of their message is valid and valuable. Historically, these 12 books are always found together and typically in the same order (63). Rather, by examining the structure and plot of the Twelve we can come to a clearer understanding of the unified message that the Minor Prophets is seeking to convey.ДЄs others have observed in the Psalms, there is an intentional ordering in the Minor Prophets, better termed The Twelve. In conversation with literary critics and scholars employing methods of canonical criticism, House shows why we should read the Twelve as more than 12 similar but separated oracles.

Such approaches were significantly lacking, however, and so he concluded: вЂњIt is probable that historical research has not successfully uncovered the structure of the Twelve because that structure is governed by literary principlesвЂќ (67). Observing this fact, Paul House, in his book The Unity of the Twelve ,В surveyed the way scholars looked to chronology and regional location as possible ways вЂњthe TwelveвЂќ were ordered. By 1990 there was no consensus on the structure of the Minor Prophets.

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