The Book of Joel is a part of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, which Christians call the Scriptures. In most biblical texts, it is the second of the 12 books of the "little prophets," found in the books of Hosea and Amos. The book, which comprises only three chapters, has no reference to its period of writing or the author's background. Given the space between the works of Hosea and Amos, it is thought to have been written in the eighth century. But the book is from the sixth century BC and envisions a tiny priestly community residing under the supervision of preachers without a monarchy. In the 5th-4th centuries, modern Bible scholars considered the operation of Persian supremacy over Israel. The first half of the book is a definition of the disastrous locust attack on the earth and the occurring drought. In that tragedy, "the worm ate the rest of the locust, the locust ate the rest of the grasshopper, and the caterpillar ate the rest of the green horse." The Prophet saw this tragedy as an attack on the teeth of a lion and the innumerable people who came with the teeth of a lion. It is not clear whether this explanation refers to such real events or military and political upheavals. However, the prophet, who sees them as an introduction to the coming of the Lord to establish his righteousness, calls on the people to regret.

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