Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Hosea -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Hosea and the covenant -- The basic message of Hosea -- Form, structure, and style -- The isolation of poetry in Hosea -- The historical setting -- Hosea the prophet and his family -- Hosea's audience -- The text of Hosea -- Unity and integrity -- Assumptions about dates -- Some notable vocabulary -- Pericope divisions in Hosea -- Translation and commentary -- The title and the time (1:1) -- The children's names presage judgment (1:2-9) -- Israel's restoration in Jezreel's great day (2:1-3[1:10--2:1]) -- Divorce proceedings with a surprise ending (2:4-17 [2-15]) -- Images of restoration (2:18-25 [16-23]) -- Israel loved and therefore chastened (3:1-5) -- Yahweh's case against Israel (4:1-19) -- An unclean people summoned to judgment (5:1-7) -- Wrath, return, restoration (5:8-7:1a) -- Ephraim mixed up among the nations (7:1a-16) -- Israel reaps the storm for its sin (8:1-14) -- From festival days to punishment days (9:1-9) -- Ephraim rejected, exiled, unloved (9:10-17) -- The end of cult, king, and capital (10:1-8) -- War against the wicked ones (10:9-15) -- Israel in and out of Egypt (11:1-11) -- Israel a deceiver (12:1 [11:12]--13:1) -- "I will destroy you, Israel" (13:2--14:1 [13:16]) -- A promise for the remnant that will return (14:2-9 [1-8]) -- Challenge to the wise reader (14:10 [9]) -- Joel -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Joel's era -- Sructure -- Style -- Joel's message -- The text of Joel -- Previous scholarship in Joel -- Translation and commentary -- A simple title (1:1) -- A call to lament (1:2-20) -- Excursus: literal or figurative locusts? -- Sounding the alarm in Zion (2:1-17) -- Restoration and the outpouring of the spirit (2:18--3:5 [2:18-32]) -- Judgment against Israel's enemies (4:1-21 [3:1-21]) -- Amos -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Amos' era -- The man Amos -- Amos' style -- The structure of the book -- Amos' message -- Previous research on Amos -- Translation and commentary -- The title and the time (1:1) -- Yahweh the lion sends desolation (1:2) -- Judgment for international and Israelite atrocities (1:3--2:16) -- Covenantal accountability (3:1-2) -- A list of inseparables (3:3-8) -- The annihilation of the opulent (3:9--4:3) -- Past punishments only a sampling (4:4-13) -- A lament for fallen Israel (5:1-17) -- The woeful day of Yahweh (5:18-27) -- The first shall be first (6:1-7) -- Complete defeat to come (6:8-14) -- Vision of doom and an official response (7:1--8:3) -- Hypocrisy: punishments fitting the crime (8:4-14) -- No escape from the Almighty's wrath (9:1-10) -- Restoration, rebuilding, replanting (9:11-15) -- Obadiah -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Past scholarship on Obadiah -- Date -- Edom in biblical history -- Prophetic oracles against foreigh nations -- Authorship -- Text -- The message -- Translation and commentary -- Edom and the future of Israel (1-21) -- Jonah -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Jonah the prophet -- Authorship -- Date and setting -- Canonization -- Message and Purpose -- Form and structure -- Style -- Unity and integrity -- Historicity -- Sources for the story -- Text -- The importance of Jonah 4:2 -- Translation and commentary -- Jonah rebels against Yahweh's revelation (1:1-3) -- Storm and sacrifice at sea (1:4-16) -- Jonah rescued by Yahweh's grace (2:1-11) -- A second beginning (3:1-3a) -- Preaching and repentance at Nineveh (3:3b-10) -- Excursus: The sign of Jonah (Matt 12:39-41; Luke 11:29-32) -- God teaches Jonah about anger and compassion (4:1-11).