The God of the Prophets

''Content analysis''-which is a computer-assisted form of textual analysis-is used to examine divine activity in six prophetic texts, comparing God''s activity to that of humans. In this methodologically innovative study, the author concludes, in the light of quantitative data, that God is harsher to non-Israelites than to Israelites in all the texts, and much kinder to Israelites in Joel than in ...