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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Habakkuk ask God directly?

2. Why does Heschel use quotes from other books of the Bible?

3. What does Heschel claim is God's ultimate goal?

4. What did Mesha sacrifice to appease his idols during wartime?

5. Isaiah was aware that disaster was coming and from that disaster would come what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did the people listen to the prophet Isaiah?

2. How does Heschel describe the words of prophecy?

3. Why does Heschel think Habakkuk is a tormented man?

4. What type of man was a prophet, according to Heschel?

5. In what way were Jeremiah and Micah the same?

6. Did the prophets feel differently about sin than others?

7. How did Hosea and Amos differ?

8. What does understanding God depend on, according to Heschel?

9. Why, according to Heschel, do others reject prophets?

10. Why does Heschel say that the tone changes toward the people of Israel while Second Isaiah is the prophet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the theology of pathos to two other theological points of view.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the social issues that the prophets were addressing. What were the issues? Be sure to link specific social issues to specific prophets. What did the prophets have to say about these social issues? Did the prophets address the social issues in the same way?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss at least three prophets that are not Old Testament prophets. How do they compare/contrast to the Old Testament prophets?

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