Were prophets more like poets or dramatists — artists communicating divine truth?

How did they balance communicating God’s message faithfully without losing people in the metaphor?

Why were these people treated like this? If they were speaking God’s words, why did everyone hate them for it?

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Dr. Eric Tully is an assistant professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He’s passionate about preaching the Old Testament and helping those in the church interpret and proclaim it with competence and confidence. His research interests include textual-criticism and translation studies, Hebrew linguistics, and prophetic literature. He’s currently preparing his dissertation for publication, entitled “The Translation and the Translator of the Peshitta of Hosea,” and is working on several other forthcoming writing projects. Eric and his wife, Traci, have two daughters.

Recommended reading from Dr. Tully:

📘 Reading the Prophets as Christian Scripture — Eric Tully -

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Prophets-Christian-Scripture-Introduction/dp/0801099730

📘 The Prophets and the Promise — O. T. Allis

https://ia601607.us.archive.org/1/items/prophetsandprom00beecgoog/prophetsandprom00beecgoog.pdf

📘 The Message of the Prophets — J. Daniel Hays -

https://www.amazon.com/Message-Prophets-Prophetic-Apocalyptic-Testament/dp/0310271525

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