The Old Testament is often divided up into five genres. Prose is divided into narrative and law, poetry into psalm and wisdom, with prophecy falling somewhere in the middle since it is often a mix of prose and poetry. These categories are certainly helpful, but there is still an immense amount of diversity within any one of these five forms. It is difficult to formulate a rule or guideline for understanding prophecy when, even within the same book, there are different genres of prophecy used for