ABSTRACT
The Prophets are those whose teachings have been preserved in the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible. The task of interpreting the Prophets is confronted with some danger and several difficulties. The danger attends every effort of interpretation; it is the danger of subjectivity, which is aggravated for a study of the Prophets by their method. The Prophets often admonished kings, condemning actions which they judged wrong and urging actions which they deemed necessary for righteousness. Their country, like all countries at that time, was ruled by an absolute monarch. Several technical difficulties confront the study of the Prophets. It should be added that the importance of the Prophets for religion lies not only in their ideas but also in themselves. Their prophetic consciousness, the sense of a mission imposed on them by divine inspiration, which gave them their distinctive greatness, has a significance for the general religious attitude.
