UNDERSTANDING THE HEBREW PROPHETS

Rabbi David Zucker places the biblical prophets within their own historical contexts so that the words, message, literary style and even personal witness of these powerfül individuals filled with God Spirit, reveal their different and unique under standings of the events of their own time. He then skillfully traces how the sacred texts of their writings were read and understood by both the early Christian and the early rabbinic communities of the Common Era He clearly explains how both the rabbis in the Mulrash and Talmud and the writers of the Christian Scriptures ofuen used biblical prophecy in order to teach and develop their own values. With this insight, readers can begin to understand how the rabbis and the Gospel writers each saw radically differ ent messages in the words spoken by the prophets.