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Author: Martha Campos Publisher: ISBN: 9781910928998 Category : Languages : en Pages : 234
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In four places, Amos announces Israel's coming exile to Assyria: 4.1-3, 5.25-27, 6.1-14 and 7.7-17. It will be Yahweh's punishment for social injustice. But who is to blame? Most scholars think it is the women (and men) of the mid-eighth-century bce Israelite upper class. Not so, says Campos. It is the kings who are the culprits. Kings should champion social justice, as we know from ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical books like Jeremiah, and the endurance of the kingship depends on their upholding justice. Kings must also remain loyal Yahwists, and keep clear of alliances with foreign powers. Israel's kings have failed on all counts. In this forensic overturning of time-honoured readings of Amos's oracles, and with a fresh eye for his metaphors, Martha Campos outs the successors of Jeroboam (7.9) as the cows of Bashan (4.1), manufacturers of images for non-Yahwistic worship, especially of Ninurta/Sakkuth (5.26), lounging on couches at their banquets (6.4). And Amos himself is a tin wall (7.8), strong enough to fend off the arrows of his opponents. Explanations for Exile will be a breath of fresh air for scholars and students of the prophet Amos.
Author: Martha Campos Publisher: ISBN: 9781910928998 Category : Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
In four places, Amos announces Israel's coming exile to Assyria: 4.1-3, 5.25-27, 6.1-14 and 7.7-17. It will be Yahweh's punishment for social injustice. But who is to blame? Most scholars think it is the women (and men) of the mid-eighth-century bce Israelite upper class. Not so, says Campos. It is the kings who are the culprits. Kings should champion social justice, as we know from ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical books like Jeremiah, and the endurance of the kingship depends on their upholding justice. Kings must also remain loyal Yahwists, and keep clear of alliances with foreign powers. Israel's kings have failed on all counts. In this forensic overturning of time-honoured readings of Amos's oracles, and with a fresh eye for his metaphors, Martha Campos outs the successors of Jeroboam (7.9) as the cows of Bashan (4.1), manufacturers of images for non-Yahwistic worship, especially of Ninurta/Sakkuth (5.26), lounging on couches at their banquets (6.4). And Amos himself is a tin wall (7.8), strong enough to fend off the arrows of his opponents. Explanations for Exile will be a breath of fresh air for scholars and students of the prophet Amos.
Author: Shalom M. Paul Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 448
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Makes extensive use of ancient Near Eastern sources, and employs medieval Jewish exegesis along with modern Israeli biblical scholarship.
Author: Jorg Jeremias Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press ISBN: 9780664227296 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 204
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In this volume, Jeremias suggests that the book of Amos was produced through various stages over time. While he does write from a critical perspective, his creativity offers a sensitivity to literary issues within the text that is often missing from critical work. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
Author: Tchavdar S. Hadjiev Publisher: de Gruyter ISBN: Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages : 276
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ThisOxford dissertationoffers a detailed analysis of the text of the Old Testament book of the prophet Amos and attempts to reconstruct the process of its composition. It looks into the probable historical circumstances in which the prophetic oracles were collected and edited and seeks to show how the prophetic message lived on and spoke to the various communities which preserved and transmitted it.
Author: Andrew M. King Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0567698416 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 169
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Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Social Identity Approach -- 3. The People of God in Amos: THE PROPHET and PROTOTYPICALITY -- 4. History and Social Identity in Amos -- 5. Eschatology and Social Identity in Amos -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Author: Jonathan Stökl Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004229930 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 313
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Since the 1990s there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State Archives, and the Hebrew Bible. The author analyzes prophecy in each culture independently before comparisons are made. This method demonstrates how prophecy is a part of the wider system of divination, but also shows where scholarship has unduly imported concepts found in one corpus to the other two. This method, for example, calls into question the supposed link between music and prophecy from the Hebrew Bible to the ancient Near East. This work provides an up-to-date analysis of ancient Near Eastern, including Israelite and Judean, prophecy to scholars and students alike. "I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, and I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in prophecy in Israel and the ancient Near East." Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, University of Aberdeen, Review of Biblical Literature "The content of Jonathan Stökl’s book...testifies to the value of the book for the studies of prophecy in the ancient Near East." Wojciech Pikor, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, The Biblical Annals
Author: Michael Kotch Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098081773 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
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Teacher's Manual and Explanation Guide: Bible for Catholics is exactly what its title says it is. It is a teacher's manual that explains how to best use the main textbook to teach a comprehensive summary of the Catholic Bible to students, or a resource for anyone who wants explanations of the material in the textbook. This book summarizes, clarifies, and gives explanations to the textbook material. The main textbook was written in a manner in which the only material in it is shortened information from the Bible or actually quoted word-for-word information from the Bible. As such, it is a pure summary of the Bible with no explanations or interpretations from the author. This teacher's manual provides explanations of the biblical material in the textbook, intended to help the student/reader get a better understanding of what is being presented. Suggestions are additionally given in this teacher's manual to teachers concerning methods they may use to teach particular topics to their students.
Author: Martha Campos
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