The Importance of Prophetic Literature

Heschel's book and the pathos of God, particularly in Jeremiah, was huge for me. It took a Jew to teach us that. So it's the underneath poetic characterization of God that really has come to preoccupy me. I do think that justice concerns are a urgent spinoff from that, but that's not the primary focus of the poetry. And I just think that the richness and the daring of the images and metaphors just preoccupy one.