The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets, occasionally Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
The first part of the book of Twelve Minor Prophets (the first book is the Book of Hosea) in the Codex Gigas, the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world, from 13th century. Now at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm.
A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex containing parts of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets (the eighth book in Nevi'im), from 10th century.
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people. The message that the prophet conveys is called a prophecy.
Isaiah, an important Biblical prophet, in fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo
Late Assyrian seal. Worshipper between Nabu and Marduk, standing on their servant dragon Mušḫuššu, eighth century BCE.
3rd-century Mithraic depiction of Zoroaster found in Dura Europos, Syria by Franz Cumont
Malachi, one of the last prophets of Israel, painting by Duccio di Buoninsegna, c. 1310 (Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena Cathedral). "He [Mashiach] will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents" (Malachi 4:6)