Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi

Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries is the work of highly respected biblical scholars, Jin H. Han and Richard Coggins. The volume explores the rich and complex reception history of the last six Minor Prophets in the exegesis, theology, worship, and arts of Judaism and Christianity, with Han focusing on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, and Coggins on Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. This latest title in the outstanding Blackwell Bible Commentary series is the only available text that covers these six prophets within a single volume, providing an essential reference for students, scholars, clergy, and general readers. The Minor Prophets have left a mark disproportionate to their length on the history of biblical reception. Suggestive allusions and references appear throughout ancient, medieval and modern literature, as well as in sculpture and paintings. Each has a special role to play in the Jewish and Christian traditions. Although the six books examined here are known to Christians as Minor Prophets, this epithet refers only to the length of their accounts, and not to their significance to believers, readers, and artists across the centuries.

Series Editors′ Preface. Preface. Table of Contents. Illustrations. Part I. Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah ( Jin H. Han ). Introduction. 1. Nahum Through the Centuries. Nahum 1. Nahum 2. Nahum 3. 2. Habakkuk Through the Centuries. Habakkuk 1. Habakkuk 2. Habakkuk 3. 3. Zephaniah Through the Centuries. Zephaniah 1. Zephaniah 2. Zephaniah 3. Part II. Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi ( Richard Coggins ). Introduction: Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi within the Hebrew Bible. 4. Haggai. 5. Zechariah. 6. Malachi. Bibliography. Online Sources. Biographies and Glossary. Index of Biblical References. Index of Names and Subjects.

Richard Coggins is one of the most respected Old Testament scholars writing today and was based in the department of Theology at Kings College, London. He is a past President of the Society for Old Testament Study and co–author with J.L. Houlden of the ground–breaking Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (1992). He is the author of numerous works including Introducing the Old Testament (2001). Jin H. Han is Professor of Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary, New York, where he has taught Old Testament and biblical Hebrew since 1992. He is an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and teaches biblical Hebrew at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. He is the author of Daniel′s Spiel: Apocalyptic Literacy in the Book of Daniel (2007) .

“The uniqueness of this commentary series is that it is the ‘first to be devoted primarily to the reception history of the Bible’ (p. xii) and it is done in a clearly outlined, user friendly, verse–by–verse commentary format . . . This quick, illuminating display of the ‘genealogy’ of interpretations is a unique achievement of this commentary useful to any reader interested in biblical interpretation.”  ( Reviews in Religion & Theology , 4 September 2013) “It provides a fascinating journey of discovery and can be read, unlike most other commentaries, from cover to cover.”  ( Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception , 1 May 2013)