Hevel.org: A Chasing after Wind

[This is the third installment of my series, Introducing the Prophets.  It is a long post, but hopefully the subheadings will help you navigate to the parts that interest you the most.]
Pick up the Bible, turn to a random section of the prophetic literature, and start reading.  Do you understand what you are reading?  What [...]

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[This is the second post in my series: Introducing the Prophets.]
Perhaps the most important point to make on the first day of a Prophets course is that prophecy is concerned not so much with telling the future as it is with providing an interpretation of the past and an explanation for why things are happening. [...]

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This is the first post in an occasional, on-going series related to my work in writing an introduction to the ancient Israelite prophets.  First, I want to lay out some of the major questions and issues that I address in the introductory chapter, each of which will be the focus of a fuller post.  Later [...]

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