Although the book has been historically classified as " prophetic ", the style of writing is apocalyptic which was popular between 200 BCE and 100 CE.

At times his style acquires a strong and original, even prophetic, ring that made it especially attractive to poets and writers, such as Vilhelm Ekelund, Hjalmar Gullberg and Gunnar Ekelöf.

Highly literate readers, as well as reviewers in newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post, have been thrilled by Trow's brilliant and prophetic insights ; wide-ranging references to serious and pop culture ; and aphoristic, sometimes post-modern literary style.

Samson ’ s biographer remarks that Illtud “ by birth was a most wise magician, having knowledge of the future .” This may mean a family of bards or druids — Patrick Thomas comments that " The reference to Illtud ’ s hereditary prophetic powers suggests that he was a man well versed in traditional Welsh culture ".

In the beginning of the sixth book, Clement intends to demonstrate that the works of Greek poets were derived from the prophetic books of the Bible.

Friedrich Heiler is often cited in Christian circles for his systematic Typology of Prayer which lists six types of prayer: primitive, ritual, Greek cultural, philosophical, mystical, and prophetic.

The Torah ( Pentateuch in Greek ) always maintained its pre-eminence as the basis of the canon ; but the collection of prophetic writings, based on the Jewish Nevi ' im, had various hagiographical works incorporated into it.

In Greek mythology " radiant, bright, prophetic " Phoebe (; Greek: Φοίβη Phoibe ), was one of the original Titans, who were one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia.

A Greek epigram has been found at Ardea, a few kilometres south of Rome, that satirizes her prophetic powers.

Classical oracles is a category for the oracle-sites, prophets, seers, prophetic daemons and oracular books-real, forged or imagined-of Greek and Roman antiquity.

After her death at the hands of Pan, Silenus becomes an obese alcoholic, but acquires prophetic powers.

As the protagonist of the poem, Aeneas seems to constantly waver between his emotions and commitment to his prophetic duty to found Rome ; critics note the breakdown of Aeneas ' emotional control in the last sections of the poem where the " pious " and " righteous " Aeneas mercilessly slaughters Turnus.

* Frank Herbert also uses the mythic characteristics of Tiresias in his second Dune novel, Dune Messiah, where the protagonist Paul Atreides loses his sight but has prophetic powers to counter this stemming from insights into both the male and female part of the psyche.

The prophetic words of his Jewish protagonist against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty allude to Emma Lazarus's famous poem The New Colossus ( 1883 ), which celebrated the statue as a symbol of the United States ' democracy and its identity as an immigrant nation.

: Seventh, Jewish law and tradition, properly understood and interpreted, will enrich Jewish life and help mold the world closer to the prophetic vision of the Kingdom of God.

Russell, who had previously rejected prophetic chronology, was moved to devote his life to what he was convinced were now the last two years before the invisible, spiritual return of Christ.

Idealists see prophetic passages as being of great value in teaching truths about God to be applied to present life.

She lived with Abraham throughout her life and, although she was barren, God promised her the birth of a prophetic son, Isaac.

Robards said of his character, " It was sort of prophetic that I be asked to play a guy going out in life.

The workings of his pyloric valve play an important role in his life, reacting strongly to incidents in a fashion that he likens to Cassandra in terms of prophetic significance.

Their hit song " Let Me Take Your Photo " proved to be prophetic to what Crewdson would become later in life.

According to former Church President Ezra Taft Benson, " A patriarchal blessing is the inspired and prophetic statement of your life ’ s mission together with blessings, cautions, and admonitions as the patriarch may be prompted to give.

There is a striking similarity between Jadis's description of the life and death of her city and the text of the prophetic book of Nahum concerning the Biblical city of Nineveh.

Early in his life, Plenty Coups started having prophetic dreams and visions.

He dedicated his life to learning and became an authority on prophetic traditions and Sharia.

Elphaba takes some of the Elixir late in life and has many prophetic dreams.

Thus, an ulema ( clerical ) class known as karamogo emerged, who were educated in the Quran and commentary ( tafsir ), hadith ( prophetic narrations ), and the life of the Prophet Muhammad.

It is then revealed that Damage, having foreseen his death by one of Sand's prophetic dreams, had recorded his last will for Judomaster, wishing her a better life, and revealing he'd had planned, in the attempt of giving her a happier life, to get cosmetic surgery on his scarred face.

Having achieved little in his 20th century life, he settles into a long and prophetic daydream of the 21st century, where all the ideological experiments of the old century are over, and a collection of startling characters – demons and angels – live a life beyond utopia.

Most of the critics in Western Europe recognized his abilities, art and congeniality, but in the Kingdom of Hungary during his life he was considered to be an eccentric crank for several reasons, e. g. for his vegetarianism, anti-alcoholism, anti-nicotinism, pacifism, his latent, but more and more apparent schizophrenia and his cloudy, prophetic writings and pamphlets about his life ( Curriculum ), genius ( The Authority, The Genius ) and religious philosophy ( The Positivum ).

He likes to meet people from odd walks of life and charm ( or perplex ) unsuspecting people with prophetic comments or counter-intuitive remarks.

In modern times it is said to have been revealed by the disciples of Rastafari who use it for its natural consciousness exalting properties for their sacramental and sanctifying rites, as instructed by the law of the Torah ; according to what they know as belonging to the truthful and faithful prophetic way of life " livity " of the ancient mystics whose history is described in the sacred scriptures.

In this book, Coelho has explored the manner in which the prophetic questioning of authority, rebellion and liberation, and ' thinking for oneself ' are important in one's relationship with God and one's life work.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

This reign is one which faces opposition from several prophets of Yahweh throughout as well as various consequences because of his marriage to Jezebel, because of his worship of Baal, disobedience to prophetic warnings and words, and also because of the murder of Naboth.

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

It is believed by most that Amos was a southern farmer, called by God to deliver his prophetic message in the North.

In it Heschel forwards what would become a central idea in his theology: that the prophetic ( and, ultimately, Jewish ) view of God is best understood not as anthropomorphic ( that God takes human form ) but rather as anthropopathic — that God has human feelings.

This is not an exhaustive list of the prophetic gestures found in the book of Jeremiah.

It is important in one's reading of the text of Jeremiah that one remember that the recorder of these events ( i. e. the author of the text ) had neither the same audience nor, potentially, the same intent that Jeremiah had in performing these prophetic gestures.

This is also true of most other texts containing prophetic gestures.

The main point of the prophetic stories is that God's prophecies are always fulfilled, so that any not yet fulfilled will be so in the future.

Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve ; the distinction ' minor ' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the " Major Prophets ".

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

Chapters 4-10 contain a series of oracles, or prophetic sermons, showing exactly why God is rejecting the Northern Kingdom ( what the grounds are for the divorce ).

The book of Obadiah is based on a prophetic vision concerning the fall of Edom, a mountain dwelling nation whose Founding Father was Esau.

The actual prophetic word against Nineveh is given only in passing through the narrative.

The Book of Micah is a prophetic book in the Tanakh / Old Testament, and the sixth of the twelve minor prophets.

* The Heading ( 1: 1 ): As is typical of prophetic books, an anonymous editor has supplied the name of the prophet, an indication of his time of activity, and an identification of his speech as the “ word of Yahweh ”, a generic term carrying a claim to prophetic legitimacy and authority.

" t appears that the Lebanon is an alternative placement in Phoenician myth ( as in Ez 28, 13, III. 48 ) of the Garden of Eden ", and there are connections between paradise, the garden of Eden and the forests of Lebanon ( possibly used symbolically ) within prophetic writings.

This book contains what is surely his biggest prophetic " hit ".

In some cases it signifies prophetic inspiration, while in others it is used as a hypostatization or a metonym for God.