Throughout the Hebrew bible God has found ways to communicate with his people. Either to warn them, or just to tell them about his word. One way God communicated with his people was with prophets. A prophet is a person who believed they got a call from God. A call narrative is when God comes to a certain person, he usually has picked out and gives them a certain duty to do for him and is usually a story about this calling. A call narrative looks into a prophets life and is distinguished from the monarchy. God had a lot of people he made prophets through the Hebrew Bible, but the ones that are studied a lot are Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Moses.
             There are four main parts to a prophets call narrative: commission, protest, promise, and sign. Commission is the call from God himself, when God comes to the person to give them their task. The protest is the prophet telling God he can not do the task. The promise is the promise God gives them explaining he will help the prophet and reward him. The last part is the sign, God giving the prophet a some sort of sign to show he is true on his promise. There are some call narratives that do not have all four parts. Isaiah and Samuel are two prophets that didn't protest against God about there calling. You can find these parts in almost any call narrative.
             Jeremiah is one of the most well known prophets. He is also known as the "weeping prophet." The story of call from God to Jeremiah can be found in the first chapter of Jeremiah . God came to him when he was just a little boy. God told him he was the one he wanted before he was born. Jeremiah didn't know what to think since he was just a small boy. Jeremiah told God
             he didn't know how to speak the words, I am only a boy. God told him I will give you the words to preach and will be behind you. God promised him he would oversee all of the nations. God showed him an almond tree in his mind to show Jeremiah he is...