Read the assigned excerpts from the Bible and be prepared to answer the following questions:

-Who is the prophet?

-What is the prophet’s relationship with God?

-What are the functions of the prophet?

-Comment on the audacity of the Hebrew prophet. Give examples.

-Which of these texts (if any) are poetic?

-Who are the addressees in these texts?

-What symbols are employed in these texts?

-What writing prophets do you know?

-What pre-writing prophets do you know?

-Can we talk about asceticism within the Jewish tradition?

-Can we say that the prophets were ascetics? Why?