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Explain six ways in which prophets messages were written in the Old Testament.

Explain six ways in which prophets messages were written in the Old Testament.

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gideon
• They were not written at ones but they were collected over time/organized to different subjects.
• They were written in different styles e.g. narratives, letters, prayer, sayings.
• Some were written by prophets themselves following God's commands.
• Some prophets dictated their messages to their disciples/scribes e.g. Jeremiah.
• Some messages were preserved by their disciples who passed them over to other generations.
• The scribes reorganized the prophets teachings according to subject matter.
• Some were preserved and passed on by their follower through oral traditions.

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State five ways in which prophetic messages were compiled.

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- Prophet themselves may have written the prophetic message

- The prophets may have dictated the message to scribe to write it down

- The disciples of the prophets preserved their masters teaching as oral traditions and passed it over to the subsequent generations

- The disciples of the prophet treasured recollections of the prophet life as well as their oracles and incorporated them in historical books of the bible

- The scribes re-organized the prophets teaching according to the subject matter

- The collection compiling and writing of prophetic messages was accomplished over a long period of time

- Some of the messages were written in different forms such as prophetic sayings, narratives, poetic, sermons, etc
gideon1 answered the question on October 2, 2017 at 17:25

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