Bible Study on the Prophets

Michelangelo's Moses

On Wednesday the Wednesday Night Bible Study resumed. This year we are studying the prophets (all of them!). - Last year we read all of Saint Paul's writings.

For the opening class we looked at what a prophet is, and we saw some examples in the Biblical texts of who were called prophets (Abraham is the first person refered to as a prophet!). The bulk of the class looked at Moses, the prophet-par-excellence in the OT, and how the role of a prophet in Israelite society is spelled out in Deuteronomy. We concluded by looking briefly at the activities of some prophets in the period of the Judges (Deborah and the man of God in Gideon's time). Next week we will study the activities of Samuel.

Of note is the fact that these prophets all have roles within the centralized government (such as it was), which contrasts greatly with the more peripheral roles of many of the prophets we will later study.

The class is Wednesdays at 7PM in the Mission House (133 West 46th Street).