It considers how the message of the prophets would have been heard in their respective historical communities as well as the prophets' continuing importance for contemporary study. Rather than attempting to provide a detailed verse-by-verse commentary, this handbook focuses on the prevailing themes and central messages of the prophetic books.

Robert Chisholm guides readers through the important and often complex writings of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets, examining the content, structure, and theological message of each book. Handbook on the Prophets provides a thorough and insightful introduction for students of Old Testament prophetic literature. Love, in all its permutations, is the discovery at the heart of Robert Jones Jr’s breathtaking debut, The Prophets.The prophetic books of the Bible contain some of the most difficult passages in the entire Old Testament.

The culminating pages summon a choral voice of those who have suffered in silence, with blistering humanity, as the day of reckoning arrives at the Halifax plantation. And preaching the words of Massa Paul’s gospel, he betrays them. Their flickering glances, unspoken words and wilful intention, revealing a truth that threatens to rock the stability of the plantation. But the barn is their haven, a space of radiance and love - away from the blistering sun and the cruelty of the toubabs - where they can be alone together.īut, Amos - a fellow slave - has begun to direct suspicion towards the two men and their refusal to bend. Two young enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the barn, helping out in the fields when their day is done. Together with the other slaves, they have been captured by white settlers from their ancestral land and forcefully brought to America to work in the cotton fields. Narrator: Karen Chilton An instant New York Times best seller May this book cast its spell on all of us, restore to us some memory of our most warrior and softest selves. Written by Jennifer Kimberly In the Deep South during the slave era, Samuel and Isaiah are enslaved at the Halifax cotton plantation. The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. The Prophets English Janu ASIN: B0876HB71P MP3128 kbps 14h 52m 771.87 MB Author: Robert Jones Jr.

blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity.

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