The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets or occasionally Book of the Twelve, The collection is broken up to form twelve individual books in the Christian Old Testament, one for each of the prophets. The terms "minor prophets" and "twelve prophets" can also refer to the twelve traditional authors of these works. Hosea (Osee) Joel Amos Obadiah (Abdias) Jonah (Jonas) Micah (Micheas) Nahum Habakkuk (Habacuc) Zephaniah (Sophanias) Haggai (Aggeus) Zechariah (Zacharias) Malachi (Malachias)