another god) to speak his word. And we saw that some scholars at least thought that the books preserve the prophets’ words accurately. Prophets plainly had strong beliefs about God and were prepared to take enormous risks in order to declare them. What were those ideas? If we were to identify the main thrusts of the prophets’ theology, it would probably be twofold: an opposition to the worship of gods other than Yahweh; and a demand for justice and righteousness in the community that laid claim to