The course will engage in a series of critical readings of various sources, ranging from the Hebrew Bible to medieval Piyyut, while following the textual tradition of the divine promise. While seeing their present days through lenses of the past and the future, prophets and poets fashioned such promises constantly even after the alleged end of prophecy with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. The reading of these Hebrew sources will be accompanied by theoretical readings into the nature of the promise and divine speech.