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Obadiah (;  – ʿŌḇaḏyā or  – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; "servant/slave of Yah"), also known as Abdias, is a biblical prophet. The authorship of the Book of Obadiah is traditionally attributed to the prophet Obadiah.

Key facts

Saint.name
Obadiah
Saint.death_date
Unknown
Saint.feast_day
19 November (Catholic, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox churches) 15 Tobi (Coptic)
Saint.venerated_in
JudaismChristianity IslamRastafari
Saint.image
Obadiah by James Tissot (cropped).jpg
Saint.caption
The Prophet Obadiah by James Tissot, c. 1900
Saint.birth_place
Unknown
Saint.titles
Prophet
Saint.attributes
Prophet with his index finger of his right hand pointing upward
Saint.major_works
Book of Obadiah

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Occupation
prophet
Image
Obadiah (Овдий).jpg
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Commons category
Obadiah
described by source
Wikitólica
date of birth
0587-01-01
feast day
November 19
date of death
0500-00-00
present in work
Book of Obadiah
different from
Abdias
canonization status
saint
name in native language
עבדיה
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Biblical account
  • Dating
  • Rabbinic tradition
  • Christian tradition
  • Islamic tradition
  • See also
  • References
  • Citations
  • External links

Obadiah (;  – ʿŌḇaḏyā or  – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; "servant/slave of Yah"), also known as Abdias, is a biblical prophet. The authorship of the Book of Obadiah is traditionally attributed to the prophet Obadiah.

Most scholars date the Book of Obadiah to shortly after the fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC. Other scholars hold that the book was shaped by the conflicts between Yehud and the Edomites in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE and evolved through a process of redaction.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Obadiah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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