The Prophets: Enforcing The Covenant In Israel

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Chapter 10 is titled, "The Prophets: Enforcing the Covenant in Israel." More individual books come under the heading of prophecy than under any other heading. Isiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel are the four "Major" prophets and the twelve "Minor" Prophets are (the final twelve books of the Old Testament). The author notes that the Prophetic Books are among the most difficult parts of the Bible for people of later times to interpret or read with understanding. The primary difficulty for most modern readers of the Prophets stems fro an inaccurate prior understanding of the word "prophecy." For most people the word mean what appears as the first definition in most dictionaries: "foretelling or prediction of what is to come. The Prophets did announce

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