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Old Testament XIV: The Twelve Prophets is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this rich and vital resource you will find excerpts, some translated here into English for the first time, from more than thirty church fathers, ranging in time from Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (late first and early second centuries) to Gregory the Great, Braulio of Saragossa and Bede the Venerable (late sixth to early eighth centuries). Geographically the sources range from...

: Joel comes from the Hebrew yô˒ēl, which means “Yahweh is El.” We know nothing about the personal life of Joel. The book occupies second place in the collection of the twelve prophets. It falls into two parts: Joel 1:1–2:27 (Joel 1–2 lxx and Heb), the plague of the locusts; and Joel 2:28–3:21 (Joel 3–4 lxx and Heb), the day of Yahweh. (Chapter 3 of the book in the Septuagint and Hebrew comprises the last five verses of chapter 2 in the Vulgate, which modern English versions follow
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