Habakkuk or Havakuk was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. The etymology of the name of Habakkuk is not clear. The name is possibly related to the Akkadian "khabbaququ", the name of a fragrant plant, or the Hebrew root חבק, meaning "embrace". He was the eighth of the twelve minor prophets and likely the author of the Book of Habakkuk, which bears his name. Practically nothing is known about Habakkuk's personal history, …

Hosea (LordGreek "' = Ōsēe"') was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BCE. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible / Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament. We know practically nothing about the life or social status of Hosea. According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblayim, at God's command.

Zechariah or Zecharya (Lordwas a person in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. He was the author of the Book of Zechariah. It is a theophoric name, the ending -iah being a short Hebrew form for the Tetragrammaton, which was very commonly in its times in association with people & places names. He was a prophet of the two-tribe kingdom of Judah, and the eleventh of the twelve minor prophets.

Joel is the second of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Joel. He was the son of Pethuel. His personal history is known only from his book. The name Joel means "The Lord Is God". On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is October 19.He is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.

Amos is one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and putative author of the speeches reported in the Book of Amos. The only direct information about him comes from this book. On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is June 15. He is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.

Haggai was one of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Haggai. He was the first of three prophets (with Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who lived about one hundred years later), whose ministry belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from captivity in Babylon. Scarcely anything is known of his personal history. He may have been one of the captives taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.

Micah the titular prophet of the Book of Micah, also called "The Morasthite" He is not the same as another prophet, Micaiah son of Imlah. He is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.

Malachi or Mal'achi was a prophet in the Bible, the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. He was the first of the minor prophets, and the writer of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6) Christian editions, and is the last book of the Neviim (prophets) section in the Jewish Tanakh. No allusion is made to him by Ezra, however, and he does not directly mention the restoration of the temple.

Nahum (נחום) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. He wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in a vivid poetic style. Little is known about Nahum’s personal history. His name means "comforter," and he was from the town of Alqosh, (Nah 1:1) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, …

Samuel Rolles Driver (October 2, 1846 - 1914) was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished Bible scholar. He was born at Southampton. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1869.

Theophylact of Bulgaria was an archbishop and commentator on the Bible. He was born most probably at Euripus, in Euboea, about the middle of the 11th century. He became a deacon at Constantinople, attained a high reputation as a scholar, and became the tutor of Constantine Ducas, son of the Emperor Michael VII, for whom he wrote "The Education of Princes". About 1078 he went into Bulgaria as archbishop of Achrida (modern Ohrid).

Hermann Guthe was a German Semitic scholar. He was educated at Göttingen, Erlangen, and (after several years as a private tutor) at Leipzig, where in 1884 he became professor of Old Testament exegesis. In 1881 and 1894 he traveled in Palestine; from 1877 to 1896 he edited the "Zeitschrift", and from 1897 to 1906 the "Mitteilungen" and "Nachrichten", of the German Palästina-Verein.

Edward Lively was an English linguist and biblical scholar. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow and Regius Professor of Hebrew. His published works include Latin expositions of some of the minor prophets, as well as a work on the chronology of Persian monarchs. He played an active role during the planning for the King James Version of the Bible, …