Spokesmen for God |  | Author: Edith Hamilton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Pages: 260
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 4.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393001695
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Publication Date: January 1, 1936
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THe noted author and scholar presents a guide to the pophets of the Old Testament for the modern reader.
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 A sound appreciation of the teaching of the Hebrew prophets June 30, 2007
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Hamilton is most known for her works on the Greek and Roman Ways. Here she makes as her subject the other great foundationalal source of Western thought, the teaching of the Hebrew prophets. While it is possible to quarrel with certain parts of her presentation of Biblical development, her appreciation and understanding of the prophets is by and large sound. She writes with an elegant clarity.
"The ways of God and the ways of men were equally interesting to the Hebrew writers and nothing else interested them at all. To the first they gave all their unsurpassed poetic power; to the other what was hardly less remarkable to them, their keenness of observation and penetration of judgment, solidly based upon that realistic view of life we call common sense , which was strong in every one of them."
Hamilton gives special emphasis to the teaching of the prophet Amos who gave preeminence to the idea of God, as God of Love. She sees the Prophets as great realists who do not let themselves escape into miracle and myth, but place supreme emphasis on ethical action. She makes a point which I think still applies today in relation to the people of Israel. She says that in no other place in the world could prophets have spoken so harshly against their own leaders and not have been silenced by force. She notes both the courage of the prophets in standing up for the weaker elements of the society, the poor, the widowed, the homeless, and the mindset which was capable of moving even leaders of the people to absorb these harsh messages and respond to them.
A fine introductory work.
 reduced & clarified seminal ideas. August 21, 2010
Jody Kay
Easy read. In 260 pages reduced & clarified a progressively developing message of Prophets Amos thru Ezekiel. Sensible, not spiritual.
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