(From beginning) ABRAHAM HESCHEL's BOOK THE PROPHETS is one of the most significant biblical works of the twentieth century. It bears primary responsibility for the importance that divine pathos has received in biblical and theological studies.1 Disrupting conventional notions of divine impassibility and immutability, in this book Heschel destabilizes theological concepts that are more derivative of Plato and Aristotle than Jeremiah and Hosea. He demonstrates that the God of the Bible is deeply enmeshed in relationship with God's people and profoundly moved by their actions. (Matthew Schlimm)