Stephen Disraeli is the pen-name of a British subject, from a teaching family. He was brought up at the more “catholic” end of the Church of England but lapsed into student atheism. He was rescued from this into a more evangelical faith. The motto of his theology is now “The essence of Faith is trust”. His academic qualifications are in history (Wadham College, Oxford), divinity (London) and church history (King’s College London). For more than ten years Stephen has been writing on Bible matters on the internet (under the name Disraeli), and he is now transferring this teaching into print.
The prophets of the Old Testament were speaking, in the first instance, to the people of their own time. This means that we need to locate the prophets in the history of their own time, in order to understand them in the first instance.I propose to survey Israel’s history mainly in terms of the wo...