Category: Prophets

Amos the Book

In the Open Yale Courses, Introduction to the OT/Hebrew Bible, Lecture 16, Professor Christine Hayes’ provides a great intro to the Book that she thinks is the first chronologically of the “minor prophets”. The transcript was uploaded to ChatGPT and the following is the summary responses. The Book of Amos is contextualized within Israel’s moral […]

Continue Reading

1 and 2 Samuel

From: Elizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (p. 203). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Formatting into a list is by this website’s guy. The books of Samuel deal with the transition from the period of the judges to the period of the monarchy. First Samuel opens with the story […]

Continue Reading

King Hezekiah, Isaiah, Micah, Babylon and the Shadow Miracle

tomgaston

For an interesting article at BAR see Hezekiah’s Religious Reform—In the Bible and Archaeology, What was King Hezekiah’s reform like on the ground? by David Rafael Moulis; December 12, 2024. From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Scroll down to see Follow-up prompts: Initial Prompt – How do the actions of King Hezekiah in the Hebrew […]

Continue Reading

Prophets

Elizabeth Hayes, Christine. Introduction to the Bible (The Open Yale Courses Series) (pp. 246-247). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition. Emphasis and formatting into a number list is by this web guy. Literary Prophets The period of classical prophecy (or literary prophecy) begins with the eighth-century prophets Amos and Hosea. The last of the literary prophets […]

Continue Reading

Minor Prophets

The Minor Prophets (in alphabetical order) are Amos, Habakkuk, Haggai, Hosea, Joel, Jonah, Malachi, Micah, Nahum, Obadiah, Zechariah, and Zephaniah. Timeline of Minor Prophets The Decline of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by BAR The 12 Minor Prophets by Brittannica Who Were the Minor Prophets? The Book of Malachi – Paragraphs below are from Britannica.com The book […]

Continue Reading