The Prophets are nags.
Why can't we just be like other people? Israel says. I'm sure many Jews still say this.
Or is it Yahweh who is the nag? We are urged in the group to be cynical. David wasn't all that wonderful. Look at his failings. He's just like anyother king. Why am I so smitten with him?
He was at the power point between the prophets ourside the circle of the new society coming into being and the people "at the gate". This is where all polititians are. Yet, like Abraham before him, he allowed Yaweh to push him and pull him.
At the end of his life he is tired. He no longer sits at the gate. Absalom cynically sits there in his stead with the hope of usurping his father's power.
The kings who come after him are only fitfully nagged. The prophets come to remind them of the wilderness experience, but there are many other advisors who have their ear. Like Ahab, they pick and choose soothsayers who tell them what they want to hear.
They become more like other people. It is inevitable.
The prophets become poets. The "Literary Prophets"
Why can't we just be like other people? Israel says. I'm sure many Jews still say this.
Or is it Yahweh who is the nag? We are urged in the group to be cynical. David wasn't all that wonderful. Look at his failings. He's just like anyother king. Why am I so smitten with him?
He was at the power point between the prophets ourside the circle of the new society coming into being and the people "at the gate". This is where all polititians are. Yet, like Abraham before him, he allowed Yaweh to push him and pull him.
At the end of his life he is tired. He no longer sits at the gate. Absalom cynically sits there in his stead with the hope of usurping his father's power.
The kings who come after him are only fitfully nagged. The prophets come to remind them of the wilderness experience, but there are many other advisors who have their ear. Like Ahab, they pick and choose soothsayers who tell them what they want to hear.
They become more like other people. It is inevitable.
The prophets become poets. The "Literary Prophets"
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