prophets

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Jones called this idea the driving force behind his debut novel “The Prophets,” a story about the forbidden love between two enslaved young men on a plantation in the Deep South.

From Los Angeles Times

Besides fragments from the Book of the Twelve Prophets, archaeologists also found a 10,500 year old basket — quite possibly the oldest in the world — and the 6,000-year-old remains of a partially mummified child.

From Salon

They bear a Greek rendition of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

From Washington Post

The fragments of parchment, about 2,000 years old, bear biblical verse, written in Greek, and match a scroll discovered about 60 years ago called the “Book of the 12 Minor Prophets”.

From Reuters

The newly found remnants contain verses from the books of Zechariah and Nahum, which form part of writings known as the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

From BBC