Book · 1962 · Nonfiction

The Prophets

Name: The Prophets
Author: Abraham J. Heschel

Perennial · 672 pages

★ 6.5 editorial score

The God of Amos and Jeremiah is not serene but stung to anger by human cruelty, Heschel argues, and the prophet feels it. Marching at Selma, he felt his legs were praying.

Genre

Religion

Subject

Judaism The Bible

Time

1962

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