BASC70223 - Prophets and Prophecy in Ancient Israel: Jeremiah and Ezekiel

Course Description

The Hebrew Prophets in the Bible are associated by the names of prophetic figures like Isaiah and Jeremiah and known for calls of social justice and peace. The role of the prophet in ancient Israel was galvanized by the crises of the Assyrian conquest of the northern kingdom of Israel in the 8th century BCE and the Babylonian conquest of Judah and Jerusalem over a century later. The prophetic voices during these years disclose surprising political reasoning and astounding literature that call for social justice, lament apocalyptic devastation, and predict theocratic utopia. The literature of the of the Hebrew Prophets is reimagined in the literature of the West in works of Augustine, Dante, Maimonides, Milton and many others.

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