Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Haggai, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Jonah, Lamentations, Malachi, Micah, Nahum, Obadiah, Zechariah, Zephaniah
They are books written on the prophets.
The Writings and then the Prophets
The minor prophets (minor because their books are short, while the major prophets books are long).
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There are four major prophets in the Bible (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel), but there are five books by them (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, and Daniel). The 12 books of the "minor" prophets are no less important than those of the "major" prophets but "major" a reflection of the length of the books and the considerable number of the prophecies in them.
People who wrote the bible books were many prophets. And all prophets were called for gods work.
This is what I quoted which is the answer to your question;The books in the bible are named after Prophets and People in the bible. Some books are written by themselves or 1 person writes more than 1 book.
The Book of Lamentations (attributed to the Prophet Jeremiah) is in the 'Ketuvim' part of the Bible - also called the 'Writings or Hagiographa' and not in the Prophets section.
The old Testement are known as 5 12 5 5 12 basically 5 books of Law, 12 books History, 5 books of Poetry, 5 books of Major Prophets and 12 books of Minor Prophets.
Jews do not use this phrase (in English), but "Former Prophets" (we would call them "Early Prophets") refers to these books: Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. They are largely narrative, historical; and less poetic than the other Prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible.
The major prophets are the books in the Old Testament that give the prophesies of God to the Jewish people. They are not called 'major' because they are more important than the 'minor' prophets but simply because their books are longer. The major prophets are:- * Isaiah * Jeremiah * Ezekiel * Daniel and are found in the last section of the Old Testament. They are followed by the minor prophets (as their books are much shorter):- Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.
Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah are considered the Major Prophets. It is worth noting, though, that they have this distinction only because their books are far longer than those of the other prophets, not because they were "better prophets" or achieved a higher level of prophecy.