SAMUEL E. BALENTINE Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC 27587 In a previous article examining Jeremiah as a “prophet of prayer,” I called attention to the fact that biblical evidence in support of the idea that intercession was a prophetic responsibility is strikingly scarce.1 Indeed, the evidence examined to that point seemed less than fully supportive of the prevailing scholarly understanding that Israel’s prophets were in fact intercessors.
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