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The dinstinction between the major and minor prophets is based on what?
The major prophets wrote more chapters and verses as well. Minor prophets like Amos and Micah had small books.
What is the difference between the Major and miner prophet?
The difference between the two is that the books of the major prophets were more in chapters, so could well have more prophecies , the minor prophets had less chapters in their book , and so less prophecies.
What is a major prophet?
Major prophets are those who wrote relatively lengthy books in the Old Testament (e.g., Isaiah). Minor prophets are those who wrote relatively short books (e.g., Amos). The term has nothing to do with the significance of their writings.
How many authors wrote the 17 books known as the Major and Minor prophets?
Those who wrote the major prophets are Samuel, Daniel, Isaiah , Ezekiel and Jeremiah, the minor ones were Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Malachi, Haggai, Hosea,Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
What is the difference in Major and Minor Prophets?
As far as 'importance' goes; there is no such thing as major or minor prophet. They are equally important since they are appointed by God.The expression 'minor and major prophet' simply refers to the size of their writings. The books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel are much larger writings, when compared with Joel, Jonah, Haggai, Malachi, etc. --But-- they were all equally impartant messages for the peoples at the various times those prophets existed, since they span many years.
Who is malachi in The Bible?
Malachi is one of the minor prophets. Not because his message was minor because of the length of his writing, being a short book of the Bible. By contrast, Isaiah and Jeremiah are consisered to be major prophets becasue of the lengths of the books they wrote.
Why were Elijah and Elisha excluded from the list of canonical prophets?
The lives of Elijah and Elisha are written in the books of 1 and 2 Kings. The major prophets is a classification of those prophets that wrote books in the Bible namely Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets are the names of prophets described in the last book of the Nevi'im, the second main division of the Jewish Tanakh. This book was broken each into separate books by the name of the Prophet in the Christian Old Testament. For this reason Elijah and Elisha are neither "major" prophets or "minor" prophets, which refer to the length of the books by the prophets name not the importance of the prophet or its message.
Why are major prophets called major?
The distinction between major and minor prophets is purely based on the length of their book. Isaiah, Jermiah, and Ezekiel are the major prophets whose books are quite lengthy. In fact Isaiah has the longest book in the Bible by number of chapters. Then there are the minor prophets Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habbakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. These prophets have much shorter books. Major and minor prophets are not distinguished because of their mesage, importance, or by who they were. They were divided this way because of the lenght of their book.
Why are Elijah and Elisha not in the list of the major and minor prophets?
The classification of major or minor prophet refers to the biblical books written by various prophets. Elisha has no books attributed to him. Thus, he does not qualify for either. This does not reflect the importance of his actual role as a prophet.
What is a mojor Prophet?
I believe you mean a major prophet. Whether a prophet is "major" or "minor" has to deal with the amount of writing they produced. Major prophets (like Isaiah or Jeremiah) wrote a lot, whereas minor prophets (like Baruch and others) wrote very little. It has nothing to do with how much work or how much good the prophet did.
Who are the prophets that wrote books?
The main prophets who wrote books were Isaiah, Samuel, Daniel,, Hosea, Haggai , Micah, Malachi, Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, Obidiah ,,
How did the people who wrote the Bible so known of God?
People who wrote the bible books were many prophets. And all prophets were called for gods work.
