The Prophets
Who They Were, What They Are
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2018
400 pages
978-0-7432-3860-1 (ISBN)
Description
Norman Podhoretz, the author of eight previous books on subjects ranging from contemporary literature to foreign policy, was editor in chief of Commentary for thirty-five years and is now the magazine's editor at large and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. A graduate of Columbia and Cambridge Universities, as well as of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies (where he earned a Bachelor of Hebrew Literature), he has been awarded a Pulitzer Scholarship, a Kellett Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, the Francis L. Boyer Award from the American Enterprise Institute, and five honorary doctorates, including one from the Jewish Theological Seminary and another from Yeshiva University. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Midge Decter.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Introduction: The Biblical Context
- A Note on Translations
- Part One: Clouds of Ancestral Glory
- Chapter 1. In the Beginning
- Chapter 2. Wielding the Sword
- Chapter 3. Plunging into Politics
- Chapter 4. Rebuking the King
- Chapter 5. Before and After Elijah
- Part Two: Eruption
- Chapter 6. Amos: The Lion Roars
- Chapter 7. Hosea and the Whore
- Chapter 8. Micah: Pax Israelitica
- Chapter 9. The First Isaiah and the Blood of Bullocks
- Chapter 10. Up from Underground
- Chapter 11. Jeremiah: The Reluctant Prophet
- Chapter 12. Ezekiel and the Jealous God
- Chapter 13. The Second Isaiah and "Universalism"
- Chapter 14. The End of the Line
- Chapter 15. Coda
- Part Three: Aftershocks
- Chapter 16. The Prophets and Us
- A Key to Citations
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliographical Note
- Endnotes
- Index
- Copyright
