Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in 20th-century religious studies, and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.
The Prophets provides a unique opportunity for readers of the Old Testament, both Christian and Jewish, to gain fresh and deep knowledge of Israel's prophetic movement. The author's profound understanding of the prophets also opens the door to new insight into the philosophy of religion. This work has held up over time and is as relevant today as it was more than forty years ago. This edition of The Prophets features a forward by Susannah Heschel, daughter of the author and a noted Jewish scholar in her own right. Abraham J. Heschel (1907-1972) was born in Poland. He was educated in Germany and came to the United States in 1940. Heschel was a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and was a very active and well known participant in the Civil Rights movement and the protests against the Vietnam War. "A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works of biblical scholarship to appear in our time."-Will Herberg