The Thematic Unity of the Book of the Twelve . By

Professor Yates talks about The Book of the Twelve also known as the Minor Prophets. But he also mentions shuv and a little bit about love. Professor Yates also mentions and talks about repentance and relapse and how it is shown in The Book of the Twelve. Introduction Gary Yates Minor Prophets Lecture 4: Overview of the Book of the Twelve, Part Two I’d like to follow up and continue from our last discussion by giving us an orientation to the message of the Book of the Twelve as a whole and how these books are related to one other. Again, I see it very likely that at the end of this process, after these twelve different prophets have preached in Israel, that there is an inspired editor or prophet who helps to pull these books together. It doesn’t necessarily change the message of the prophets themselves, but it shows us those interrelations, interrelationships, and interconnections. And we were looking last time at the fact that there’s a basically a chronological arrangement of these books, but there’s also thematic unity. There are catch words that often connect the individual books; there’s a focus and a confession on Exodus chapter 34, verses 6 and 7, talking about both God’s mercy and God’s judgment. Interestingly, that sort of stops after the book of Nahum, and it may convey the idea that the people ultimately exhaust God’s patience; they exhaust his compassion, and he must bring judgment. And then we also saw at the end of the last lesson that the book of Hosea, as the opening book, raises an issue that I think works itself throughout this entire collection. It’s the issue of how will people respond to the word of God, and how will they respond to the prophetic calls for repentance. The Thematic Unity of the Book of the Twelve