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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...

(1) the king shall copy the Torah; (2) the king shall have the Torah with him; and (3) the king shall read the Torah.7 In other words, the only positive requirement is that the king embody torah as a model citizen. This is exactly what Isaiah is saying in 16:5, only he employs the concept of social justice, expressed by the broken word pair justice-righteousness as a summary for the Torah. Deuteronomy calls for a king who implements the Torah in his regime, and Isaiah predicts a king who will deliver
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