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How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Prophetic Books of the Bible are full of symbolic speeches, dramatic metaphors, and lengthy allegories—a unique blend of literary styles that can make them hard to comprehend. How can we know if we are reading them the way God intended them to be read? In this accessible guide, leading Old Testament scholar Peter Gentry identifies seven common characteristics of prophetic literature in the...

The Abrahamic covenant is foundational to the Mosaic/Israelite covenant in Deuteronomy, and the Davidic covenant is a further development in the sequence of covenants established by God. So the statement, “Everything in the prophets is based on the Mosaic covenant made at Sinai and renewed at Moab,” is not intended to exclude prophetic statements that may be directly tied to the covenant at creation,2 the covenant with Abraham, and the covenant with David. Nonetheless, the main concern of the prophets
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