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Oct 6, 2023 · B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke says the province's disaster relief program was designed to help people during small-scale emergencies, affecting few people for a short time. In his work, Feltmate ...
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- 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...
May 24, 2018 · 32. Cf. Madhavi Nevader's comments towards the end of the first section of the "Earthquake" article in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Add a comment. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee , like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Amos says the lives of students and teachers have been upended in this disaster. The once-busy classrooms now bear empty spaces on benches, and area schools that weren’t destroyed are damaged. Families are grieving, and friends of the missing students are devastated. During attendance checks, Amos hopes to hear the familiar voices of students.
Aug 26, 2015 · Amos preaches that the Lord provided justice for all Israel when he brought them up from Egypt and gave them the land of the Amorites (2:9-10). He also raised up prophets and Nazirites to turn the people back (2:11-12), yet now the Lord finds himself outside the established institutions of worship. Amos notes an insincerity about the way the ...
Affirming that the eagerly expected "Day of Jehovah" will be darkness and disaster on disaster inevitable (Amos 5:18-20), it again emphasizes Jehovah’s desire for righteousness rather than worship (Amos 5:21-26), and closes with the threat of captivity beyond Damascus. "Jehovah God of Hosts is His Name," as at the close of 3.
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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.
