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1 hour ago · The Book of Amos is the third of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the second in the Greek Septuagint tradition. [1] According to the Bible, Amos was an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah , [ 2 ] and was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II [ 2 ] (788–747 BC) of Samaria (Northern Israel), [ 3 ] while Uzziah was King of Judah.
- Retrospective History
- The Historical Prophet
- Amos as A “Literary-Predictive Text”
The book opens with a claim that Amos prophesied during the overlapping reigns of King Uzziah of Judah and King Jeroboam II of Israel: This would have been in the 760sB.C.E. This was a high point of Israel’s power, but Amos predicts that Israel will be destroyed because of their ethical failings. This takes place years later when the kingdom of Isr...
What then of the prophet Amos, the historical individual? Some of the book’s portions could go back to a historical prophet Amos. Nevertheless, the late date of many of the passages surveyed above suggests the book as a whole is not the work of a “prophet,” i.e., a mantic diviner who functioned as such, but is a literary construct. Our knowledge of...
The book of Amos is not “prophecy” per se, but rather is a “literary-predictive text”—a text written as prophecy to explain a historical development in terms of divine will. The book is thus both an indictment and an autopsy of fallen Israel, part of the general biblical understanding of Israel’s catastrophes as being due to the Israelites’ own rel...
A Brief Introduction to the Book of Amos. The Book of Amos, one of the twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, provides a snapshot of the eighth-century BCE prophetic tradition. Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa, delivered his prophecies during a period of economic prosperity and moral decline in ancient Israel. His messages, recorded in nine ...
Amos is the third book of The Twelve. Amos was a shepherd and fig tree farmer (Amos 7:14) who lived right near the border between northern Israel and southern Judah. The north had seized its independence about 150 years earlier (1 Kgs. 12) and was currently being ruled by Jeroboam II, a successful military leader.
Oct 16, 2022 · This article presents a theological exegesis of the book of Amos. It focuses on the ethical dimensions of the prophet’s judgements of Israel and the surrounding nations. The message of Amos is set within its canonical texts, putting it in conversation with a teaching of the Pentateuch and the New Testament, especially the Epistle of James.
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Sep 10, 2021 · A contemporary of Jonah and Jeroboam II was the prophet Amos (the book bearing his name begins by telling us that he lived “in the days of King Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel” Amos 1:1). Interestingly, Amos prophesied quite specifically that “Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land” (Amos 7:11).
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"Amos is one of the Twelve Minor Prophets, the last volume of the prophetic books (the second section of the Hebrew Bible). His career unfolded during the seismic eighth century BCE. At the time, the Israelites had already split into two kingdoms: the northern kingdom of Israel, consisting of ten of the twelve Israelite tribes, and the southern kingdom of the tribe of Judah, which also ...
