The Old Testament (Prophets)

Introduction

The purpose of the paper is to discuss Major and Minor Prophets. Major Prophets include Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. Minor Prophets include Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

The books of the Latter Prophets, sometimes called the classical prophets, are anthologies of prophetic speeches attributed to individuals who lend their names to the books. There are three major books (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) and twelve minor ones (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi). The terms major and minor describe the length of the books, not their relative significance. With the exception of Jonah, these books have little or no narrative framing, and an account of the specific historical events to which they respond is further complicated by the long process of editing and expansion that produced them.

Major Prophets

Isaiah

6th version is commonly held to evoke the experience of the shrine in Jerusalem. In the call, of Isaiah, an angel touched his lips, not the Lord: “Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With, he touched my mouth and, said, 'See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for'” (Isaiah 6:6-7) (Albertz, 213).

Isaiah began his prophetic time of King Uziyahu, in 745 BC. Opening chapter and, considered the prophecy of his dedication, he says he saw the look in the death of King Uziyahu (735 BC). Prophecies he mentions his wife and two sons, and he seemed was close to the royal family (Albertz, 213).

Isaiah willingly took on the prophetic mission, from recognized moral distress of his people at the time and wanted very much to save and rescue people had expected calamity. He saw the social corruption, oppression of the ruling Hamas, include the rich, customary superstitious idolatry of the entire nation. At the same time saw the intensification of the Assyrian conqueror coming closer to Israel - made the connection between two things: the sins of the people will bring about the destruction and kidney. Beech is a punishment by God to his people and the sinner.

Isaiah is a collection of prophecies from Bible. It covers about 300 years' period. It comprises the social injustice for perpetrating the people of God. Isaiah tells us that God has control over Leviathan, just as he has the power over the sea, no matter how fearsome Leviathan may appear to us.

Jeremiah

In 539 BC, 67 years after the return of Daniel, the Persian Empire - Dana Karsh under Persian, occupied the land of Babylonians. Daniel was nominated prime minister beneath the Persian Empire (Daniel 6). The citizens of Judah were now beneath the Return almost seventy years. Daniel experienced that the amount of return was limited to 70 years, as told by Jeremiah. 2, "in one of his reign, I Daniel meantime the books, the number of years, which was the word of ...