Kenneth Hanson. Пророки. Введение

Why should we care these days about the biblical prophets? We should care because the entire concept of social justice, as we think of it today, is directly rooted in the ancient Israelite prophetic class. And those same prophets are not to be taken for granted. They were in fact about as revolutionary as the wheel. Think about it. The ancient Greeks had their soothsayers and shamans. The ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians had their fortunetellers. But only Israel had prophets…