He is commemorated with the other minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on 31 July.

In the Roman Martyrology, the prophet is commemorated on 13 July. On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is 19 October. Īccording to a long-standing tradition, Joel was buried in Gush Halav. Joel was originally from Judah/ Judea, and, judging from its prominence in his prophecy, was quite possibly a prophet associated with the ritual of either Solomon's or the Second temple, depending on the date when he lived. However, the book's mention of Judah's suffering and to the standing temple have led some scholars to place the date of the book in the post-exilic period, after the construction of the Second Temple. The book's mention of Greeks has not given scholars any help in dating the text since the Greeks were known to have had access to Judah from Mycenaean times (c. The dating of his book is similarly debated there are no mentions of kings that might help locate it in time. Some commentators suggest that Joel lived in the 9th century BCE, whereas others assign him to the 5th or 4th century BCE.

The name Joel combines the covenant name of God, YHWH (or Yahweh), and El (god), and has been translated as ' YHWH is God' or 'one to whom YHWH is God,' that is, a worshiper of YHWH. He is mentioned by name only once in the Hebrew Bible, in the introduction to that book, as the son of Pethuel ( Joel 1:1). Joel ( / ˈ dʒ oʊ əl/ Hebrew: יוֹאֵל – Yōʾēl Greek: Ἰωήλ – Iōḗl Syriac: ܝܘܐܝܠ – Yu'il) was an Israelite prophet, the second of the twelve minor prophets and according to the book itself the author of the Book of Joel. Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo ( Fresco, Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508–1512).

Jophiel by Gerald Brennan