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From Faith to Faith -- Essays on Old Testament Literature
by B. Davie Napier
Chapter 4: Prophecy. <I>In the Days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah (Isaiah 1-11, 17-22, 28-33)</I>
We have seen something of the covenant faith of Israel as it is expressed in Old Testament myth, legend and history.
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That faith finds its most dynamic articulation in the prophets.
In the strict sense of the word, there is no "typical" prophet. In the Hebrew canon of prophecy (the Latter Prophets) there are four "books" comprising fifteen names -- Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the twelve "minor" prophets (the last twelve writings of our Old Testament, Hosea to Malachi) These fifteen writings vary in length, were written over a span of centuries from the eighth probably to the third B.C., are addressed to radically different historical situations, and certainly in their present form represent far more than fifteen writers.
The creators of this literature do not always speak with one voice e