Volume 1 of this two-volume work was welcomed by the Expository Times as 'a most important study of the prophets and one which will have to be reckoned with in all future research'. Volume 2 continues the study from Jeremiah down to the end of the Persian period, with Deutero and Trito-Zechariah, Jonah and Malachi, ending with an important summary of the results achieved. Professor Koch's approach is to stress that the prophets were thinkers working out in their prophecies a theological response to the problems of their day in the light of their understanding of God, rather than ecstatics or preaches of judgment. This gives his books a distinctive stamp and offers the reader quite a different perspective from that offered elsewhere. The ideas put forward here as always interesting and never sensationally controversial.