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Prophets
Classical Prophecy
Prophets in the Ancient Near East
Prophecy in Israel
Prophets and Politics
Words for Prophet in the Bible
Views of Prophecy in Israel and Judah
Prediction and Proclamation
Prophetic Guilds

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Prophets in the Bible were not primarily foretellers. Simply read through the book of Amos at one sitting and you will hear how little Amos is concerned to predict. Most of his "words" are addressed to criticizing present wrongdoing. Injustice, oppression, and rich, even luxurious, worship while the poor starve, are the issues he speaks about most. Where he looks to the future most often it is to warn: if you act like this God's punishment will come. On the punishment itself his descriptions vary, from seeming to envisage invasion (3:11; 4:10; 5:3; 6:7-14 etc.) through earthquake (8:8) and drought (4:7-8) to God's personal intervention (4:13).

Classical Prophecy
Already in the second century BC the prophetic books had begun to become classical and canonical. In the celebration of heroes of the faith in Ecclesiasticus we find listed in order Isaiah (Sir 48:22-25), Jeremiah (49:6-7), Ezekiel (49:8-9) and the twelve Minor Prophets (49:10). Copies of Isaiah (with text very close indeed to the MT) and commentaries on several biblical prophetic books - Isaiah, Hosea, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk - were in use in Qumran before the time of Jesus, as was the phrase "the law and the prophets".

Prophets in the Ancient Near East
Prophets were by no means unique to Israel. The people of Ebla (north Syria) in the 23rd Century already used the term nabi' and several official letters from the 18th century royal archive of Mari on the Euphrates convey prophetic messages to the ruler, who was away from the city. The behavior of the prophets of Mari was similar to that of Israel's prophets. Once after blaming King Zimri-lim for not being faithful in