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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...

message. It is just that the message will emerge differently than one derived from a narrative or a New Testament epistle, for example. For one thing, the prophets are quite repetitive; they do not mind saying exactly the same thing over and over to get the point across. In our study we will encounter several prophetic themes and messages that appear repeatedly throughout the material. Thus, throughout this book we will break each book down only into very broad units, usually based on thematic or
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