In graduate school, every student was required to take a core curriculum that included Introduction to Hebrew Bible (it was once named “Introduction to the Old Testament,” but was changed for good reason, as this story might demonstrate). The professor guided us through the layers of creation accounts and ancestral histories in Genesis, moved us through the liberation of Exodus and Covenant to keep, navigated us through the entrance to the land of promise, and then introduced us to the prophets. After a kingdom was created, it was the prophets who were the primary truth-tellers to power. The prophets were...