Her is fresh study of those major figures of the Old Testament, the prophets. It is written with the same skill and clarity that the author showed in his earlier and rightly popular work, A Path Through Genesis. The Conscience of Israel is concerned with the prophets of the eighth and ninth centuries B.C. - the prophets of the period before the Babylonian exile of the people of Judah; Amos, Hosea, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, as well as Nahum, Zephaniah and Habbakuk.