Editing Twelve Minor Prophets (section)

===Individual books===
Scholars usually assume that there exists an original core of prophetic tradition behind each book which can be attributed to the figure after whom it is named.{{Sfn |Floyd|2000|p= 9}} In general, each book includes three types of material:
* Autobiographical material in the first person, some of which may go back to the prophet in question;
* Biographical materials about the prophet in the third person – which incidentally demonstrate that the collection and editing of the books was completed by persons other than the prophets themselves;
* Oracles or speeches by the prophets, usually in poetic form, and drawing on a wide variety of genres, including covenant lawsuit, oracles against the nations, judgment oracles, messenger speeches, songs, hymns, narrative, lament, law, proverb, symbolic gesture, prayer, wisdom saying, and vision.{{Sfn|Coogan| 2009}}
The noteworthy exception is the [[Book of Jonah]], an anonymous work which contains a [[narrative]] about [[Jonah|the prophet Jonah]].