OT 15.7 | The Classical Prophets: Four Crises That Shaped Israel's Prophetic Books

Описание: The sixteen prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible weren't written by mystics gazing into the future. They were responses to four specific national catastrophes spanning 750 to 430 BCE. This video provides a framework for reading the entire prophetic corpus by connecting each prophet to the crisis that provoked their message — from Amos denouncing social injustice under the Assyrian threat, to Jeremiah urging surrender to Babylon, to Ezekiel consoling exiles, to Haggai and Malachi pointing toward eschatological hope.

Key concepts covered:
• What makes the classical (literary) prophets different from earlier prophets like Elijah and Elisha
• Crisis 1 — The Assyrian threat: Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah warn the northern and southern kingdoms (fall of Samaria, 722 BCE)
• Crisis 2 — The Babylonian rise: Nahum celebrates Nineveh's fall (612 BCE), Habakkuk questions God's use of a wicked nation, and Jeremiah urges submission as theology applied to foreign policy
• Crisis 3 — The Exile (586–539 BCE): Ezekiel's dual role of consolation and accountability after Jerusalem's destruction
• Crisis 4 — The post-exilic return: Haggai and Zechariah urge Temple rebuilding; Joel and Malachi introduce eschatological hope
• The evolution of prophetic messaging: warning, then submission, then consolation, then eschatological hope
• The bridge from prophecy to apocalypticism and its influence on later Judaism and Christianity
• How to use the four-crisis framework as a reading tool for any prophetic passage

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SOURCE MATERIALS
The source materials for this video are from    • Lecture 15. Hebrew Prophecy: The Non-Liter...