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Available
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Publication
Philadelphia, Westminster Press
ISBN
0664208630 / 9780664208639
Description
This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the book of Amos. 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.
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CONTENTS:
Part I: Introduction
The time
The prophet
The sayings
The message
The book
Part II. Commentary
The title: 1.1
The voice of Yahweh: 1.2
Oracles against the nations: 1.3-2.16
Election to judgment: 3.1-2
The word is the work of Yahweh: 3.3-8
Oppression within brings plundering from without: 3.9-11
Your deliverance will prove the death of you: 3.12
The fall of the house of Jacob: 3.13-15
The ladies of Samaria: 4.1-3
Worship that is rebellion: 4.4-5
The broken quest: 4.6-13
Note: the hymnic sections in Amos
Funeral rites for the nation: 5.1-3
The Holy One, not the holy place: 5.4-6
Man's injustice brings God's justice: 5.7, 10-11
Lord of heaven and history: 5.8-9
Your future is a funeral: 5.12-13, 16-17
Not every one who says 'Lord, Lord' : 5.14-15
The day of Yahweh: 5.21-24
Sacrifice will not save you: 5.25-27
The affluent society: 6.1-7
The wrath of God: 6.8-11
The absurd happens in Israel: 6.12
They who live by the sward: 6.13-14
Vision and reality 7.1-8.3
Never on a Sunday: 8.4-8
Gloom and grief: 8.9-10
Not by bread alone: 8.11-14
No hiding place:9.1-6
The freedom of Yahweh: 9.7-8
God's sieve is his sward: 9.9-10
The resurrection of the kingdom: 9.11-12
Prosperity and peace: 9.13-15
Part I: Introduction
The time
The prophet
The sayings
The message
The book
Part II. Commentary
The title: 1.1
The voice of Yahweh: 1.2
Oracles against the nations: 1.3-2.16
Election to judgment: 3.1-2
The word is the work of Yahweh: 3.3-8
Oppression within brings plundering from without: 3.9-11
Your deliverance will prove the death of you: 3.12
The fall of the house of Jacob: 3.13-15
The ladies of Samaria: 4.1-3
Worship that is rebellion: 4.4-5
The broken quest: 4.6-13
Note: the hymnic sections in Amos
Funeral rites for the nation: 5.1-3
The Holy One, not the holy place: 5.4-6
Man's injustice brings God's justice: 5.7, 10-11
Lord of heaven and history: 5.8-9
Your future is a funeral: 5.12-13, 16-17
Not every one who says 'Lord, Lord' : 5.14-15
The day of Yahweh: 5.21-24
Sacrifice will not save you: 5.25-27
The affluent society: 6.1-7
The wrath of God: 6.8-11
The absurd happens in Israel: 6.12
They who live by the sward: 6.13-14
Vision and reality 7.1-8.3
Never on a Sunday: 8.4-8
Gloom and grief: 8.9-10
Not by bread alone: 8.11-14
No hiding place:9.1-6
The freedom of Yahweh: 9.7-8
God's sieve is his sward: 9.9-10
The resurrection of the kingdom: 9.11-12
Prosperity and peace: 9.13-15