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The Prophets as Preachers: An Introduction to the Hebrew Prophets is unavailable, but you can change that!

The prophets of the Old Testament times were among the most persuasive preachers in all of history. Smith uses communication theory and the sociology of knowledge to analyze how the preaching of the Old Testament prophets were able to change individual lives, influence the world’s greatest leaders, and cause entire nations to repent. He reaches beyond the traditional presentations of Scripture...

to one’s core beliefs. The reasons that carry the greatest impact vary from person to person and culture to culture. Thus what appears to be logical and persuasive evidence to one person will be irrelevant to someone in another cultural context. Aristotle believed that rhetoric brought persuasion through ethos, pathos, and logos.25 Ethos relates to the credibility of the person speaking; pathos refers to the emotional appeal of the speaker; while logos describes the logical nature of the argumentation.
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