Abraham J. Heschel's "The Prophets: Two Volumes in One" had been taunting me from my Amazon wish list for quite awhile.  Thanks to my laziness towards the holidays, a mass distribution of said wish list was all it took for the tome to end up under my parents tree and, soon after, snugly riding towards my home in a backpack.  Almost two-weeks past Christmas and five days into the New Year, I have only to tackle the first two chapters (dealing with the prophets Amos and Hosea, respectively); my immense enjoyment of the work means I tend to neglect reading it when any substance or distraction has wandered into my orbit, for fear of Heschel's work being lost on me. Combine that with an incessant need to immediately comb through each chapter's prophetic reference book (in a new NRSV Bible gifted in tandem with "The Prophets") and you end up with a tedious read.

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Transitions from Persona to Object

The dogma of the Prophets has been run through the slaughter house of the colonial-rational machine. A natural and necessary Being, it has always been strung up by humanity as a source of first sustenance and then labor and then open conflict. The prehistoric give-and-take of Nature, the “sacrifice” of the Being for sustenance in accordance with the Logos, devolved into the artificial manipulation and systemic exploitation of the Being. The result of the slaughter house of Capital is distributed as the meaty sustenance, the soylent green offered to the Commune of Thou, it’s Original and divine substance contaminated to the fullest by transgressions.

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