“The Bible is our firm guarantee that in a world of technological naiveté and ideological reductionism, prophetic construals of another world are still possible, still worth doing, still longingly received by those who live at the edge of despair, resignation and conformity. Our preferred language is to call such speech prophetic, but it we might also term it poetic. Those whom the ancient Israelites termed prophets, the equally ancient Greeks called poets. The poet/prophet is a voice that shatters settled reality and evokes new possibility in the listening assembly.”

Brueggemann