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The Prophets (Perennial Classics)

Description: Amazon.com Review According to the popular definition, a prophet is one who accurately predicts the future. But in the Jewish tradition, as Abraham Joshua Heschel explains in The Prophets, these figures earn their title by witnessing the world around them with outstanding passion. Prophets are those whose "life and soul are at stake" in what they say about "the mystery of [God's] relation to man." They are "some of the most disturbing people who have ever lived," and yet they are also "the men whose image is our refuge in distress, and whose voice and vision sustain our faith." Heschel's b ... (more)
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release date: 16 October 2001
ISBN-10 : 0060936991 | ISBN-13: 9780060936990
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