The Old Testament: THE PROPHETS 1400 B.C. (Moses) to 420 B.C. (Malachi)
	l The collection referred to as “The Prophets” are of widely disputed authorship. They generally do not give any hint as to who the author might have been or when they might have been written. Most scholars tend to think that they were written down by priestly scribes during the period following the Babylonian captivity.