745–586 BCE Late 8th–early 7th: Amos (initial composition of earliest layer);[3] "First Isaiah" (Isaiah 1–39),[4] Hosea,[5] Micah (second half).[6] 7th: Nahum (based on its assumption of the fall of Thebes and call for the destruction of Nineveh),[7] Zephaniah (in the reign of Josiah, c.