5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Hebrew king who united the tribes of Israel, made Jerusalem his capital, and is traditionally credited with writing the Psalms — and whose relationship with God embodies the covenant's full complexity: chosen, beloved, deeply fallible (Bathsheba, Uriah), repentant, and restored.
Hebrew prophet of the 8th century BCE whose book uses his own troubled marriage as a sustained metaphor for Israel's unfaithfulness to God — one of the earliest and most vivid uses of marriage as a theological metaphor.
Hebrew prophet who ministered during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem (587 BCE) and proclaimed a new covenant written on the heart — internal rather than external law.
Hebrew prophet and lawgiver — the central figure of the Hebrew Bible — who led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the Torah at Sinai, and is considered by Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions to be the greatest prophet who ever lived.
Biblical king of Israel — son of David — who built the First Temple in Jerusalem, was famous for his wisdom (the judgment of Solomon), wrote (or is attributed with) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon, and whose reign represented the peak of the united Israelite monarchy.