897HOSHEA
| 2 || 14 ||| YOEL | 1 || 2
|| 3 ||| AMOS | 1 || 2 || 3
|| 4 || 9 ||| OVADYAH ||| YONAH | 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 ||| MICHAH | 1 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 |||
NACHUM ||| CHAVAKUK | 1 | 2 || 3 ||| TZEFANYAH ||| CHAGAI | 1 || 2 ||| ZECHARYAH | 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 14 ||| MALACHI | 1 || 2 || 3
Trei Asar
Twelve Prophets
A Teachers' Guide
prepared by
in conjunction with Yael
Goldwaser
edited by
Yael Goldwasser
Shira Smiles, 2000 - 5760
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
THE BOOK OF HOSHEA || Chapter 2 || Chapter 14
THE BOOK OF YOEL || Chapter 1, 1-12 || Chapter 2, 1-2, 11-27 || Chapter 3
THE BOOK OF AMOS || Chapter 1, 1 || Chapter 2, 4-16 || Chapter 3 || Chapter 4 || Chapter 9, 7-15
THE BOOK OF YONAH || Chapter 1 || Chapter 2 || Chapter 3 || Chapter 4
THE BOOK OF MICHAH || Chapter 1, 1|| Chapter 3 || Chapter 4, 1-4 || Chapter 5, 6-14 || Chapter 6, 1-8 || Chapter 7, 18-20
THE BOOK OF NACHUM || Chapter 1, 1-10
THE BOOK OF CHAVAKUK || Chapter 1 || Chapter 2, 1-15 || Chapter 3, 1-4, 18-19
THE BOOK OF TZEFANYAH || Chapter 1, 1, 12-14 || Chapter 2, 1-4 || Chapter 3, 16-20
THE BOOK OF CHAGAI || Chapter 1 || Chapter 2
THE BOOK OF ZECHARYAH || Chapter 1, 1 || Chapter 2, 14 – Chapter 4, 14 || Chapter 5, 9-11 || Chapter 7, 1-7, Chapter 8, 3-19 || Chapter 9, 9 || Chapter 14
THE BOOK OF MALACHI || Chapter 1 || Chapter 2 || Chapter 3
TREI ASAR
“Trei Asar” means “twelve” in Aramaic, and the book of Trei Asar contains the writings of twelve prophets, in twelve separate books. Since they were all short books, they were put together into one large volume, out of fear that otherwise they would get lost. (Radak)
With twelve prophets, it is only natural that the time span will be greater than that of a single prophet, and, indeed, the prophecies in the book cover the period from the First Temple, until some time during the era of the Second Temple. Shortly after the Second Temple was completed, prophecy ceased; Malachi, the last book in Trei Asar, is also the last book of prophecy in the Tanach.
As to the order of the twelve, there are various opinions explaining it. In general, one can see that the order is chronological, but some of the books were put next to each other for associative reasons (i.e., Ovadiah follows Amos because Amos ends with a prophecy about Edom). (Da’at Mikra)
The students can refer to a time-line prepared for the study of Melachim II, and plot the time span of these twelve prophets – starting with Hoshea, and going on until Malachi. The students can refer to the opening verses of each prophet in order to see if and where they fit in.
The twelve books are part of the Nevi’im Achronim, namely the direct prophecies. Why are these books so short? A basic rule is that נבואה שנצרכה לדורות נכתבה ונבואה שלא נצרכה לדורות לא נכתבה – prophecies were written down and added to the Tanach only when they had lasting value. These twelve prophets may have had many more prophecies, but only those that had lasting value were recorded.
In this curriculum we will study some of these varied prophecies, and try to understand their eternal message to us.
* Suitable for honors students
Underlined source Verses which the students should look up by themselves, using a Tanach.
Shaded box Notes to the teacher on analysis of the text, or on methodology
Shaded box with A note about a relevant moral issue that can be
rippled edges developed in class, including a reference to further
reading material.
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I
teach Yonah to my students in Kansas City and happened upon your notes for
teaching
Trei Assar on the web. In them you say:
"The
students should be aware of the special qualities of the Land of Israel:
Prophecies
are given only in the land of Israel, or, if they are given
outside
of it, they are about it. See Kuzari 2:4."
I
could not find this reference in the Kuzari. Is it a correct citation? Am I
missing
something?
Thank
you very much,
Daniel
Loew
Reply
thanks
, you are correct. it is a misquote.
It
is in Essay Two, paragraph 14 page 64 in English Kuzari published by Aronson
translated by Rabbi korobkin
or
english kuzari page 89 publisherd b shocken translated b H. Slonimsky...
(NOTE
– this mistake is corrected in the html document on the web. )
Table of Contents – Introduction
|| HOSHEA | 2 || 14 ||| YOEL | 1 || 2 || 3
||| AMOS | 1 || 2 || 3 || 4
|| 9 ||| OVADYAH ||| YONAH | 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 ||| MICHAH | 1 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 |||
NACHUM ||| CHAVAKUK | 1 | 2 || 3 ||| TZEFANYAH ||| CHAGAI | 1 || 2 ||| ZECHARYAH | 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 14 ||| MALACHI | 1 || 2 || 3