Amos: An Introduction and Study Guide: Justice and Violence (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)

✍ Scribed by Walter J. Houston

Publisher: T&T Clark
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 130
Edition: Study Guide
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This study guide to Amos is divided into three parts. The first sets out to describe the genre, style, shape and aim of the text, along with its leading ideas, with the help of recent scholarship on the Hebrew Bible in general and the prophets in particular. Special note is taken of the many images of violence in Amos, along with its denunciations of injustice, and its overwhelming emphasis on the ineluctable destruction awaiting Israel. The second part sets the book in its historical and social context, with particular focus on the social context of the injustices denounced by Amos. Houston also provides an overview of the various proposals made in the last 50 years for how the book has assumed its present shape. The final part outlines the ways in which the book has been read over the centuries, with an emphasis on the modern period, in which it has become a rallying call for those concerned with injustice in their own world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Reading Amos
Chapter 1: What Kind of Book is Amos? Genre and Style
Chapter 2: The Shape of the Book of Amos
Chapter 3: The Aim of the Book of Amos
Chapter 4: The Ethical Ideas of the Book of Amos
Chapter 5: The Theology of the Book of Amos
Part II: Writing Amos
Chapter 6: The Context of the Making of the Book of Amos
Chapter 7: The Making of the Book of Amos
Part III: Amos Read
Chapter 8: The Reception and Influence of the Book of Amos
Bibliography
Index of Biblical References
Index of Authors

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