Christine Hayes continues Yale's Introduction to the Old Testament with a survey of minor prophetic books. Micah, an eighth-century southern prophet contemporary with Isaiah, structures his book around alternating oracles of doom and hope, attacking the doctrine of Zion's inviolability through the literary form of a covenant lawsuit, or riv. Hayes then covers Zephaniah, Nahum's vivid poetic depiction of Assyria's downfall, and Habakkuk's philosophical wrestling with divine justice. The lecture's second half turns to the lengthy book of Jeremiah, a prophet active during the Babylonian destruction and exile, examining his prediction of a seventy-year exile and his vision of a new covenant written on the heart rather than on stone. Hayes traces common paradoxes running through prophetic literature as a whole. Recorded for Yale's RLST 145 in Fall 2006, the lecture moves briskly through primary texts with close reading of specific passages.