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Message of the Prophets: A Survey of the Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians sometimes approach the Old Testament with a mixture of awe and bewilderment, knowing that it contains pearls of wisdom, but unsure how to dive for them—especially when it comes to the Prophets. In The Message of the Prophets, author J. Daniel Hays offers a scholarly, yet readable and student-friendly survey of the Old Testament prophetic literature that presents the message of each...

The prophets that we are studying in this book lived during tumultuous times. Amos, the earliest prophet, preached during the reign of Jeroboam II, king of Israel (786–746 BC).1 Malachi, the last prophet, probably ministered in the middle of the fifth century BC (ca. 450 BC). The rest of the prophets fall in between these two. Thus the prophets span about three hundred years, from around 750 BC to around 450 BC. During this period, the history of the Ancient Near East was
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