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Andrew Davis, associate professor at the Boston College School of Theology, commendably continues this trajectory with respect to the poetics of Amos. The Book of Amos and Its Audiences builds on Robert Alter’s notion of entrapment—that is, a bait-and-switch method by which readers “are lured into sharing the poet’s gaze at the ...
Some suppose that the Amos traditions remained in the Northern Kingdom and came south after 722 BCE,43 but it is not clear to me why tradents of Amos would base themselves in the north rather than the south.44 Certainly, many parts of the book of Amos date after 721 BCE, often quite a bit later, as my analysis of 7:10–17 will show, but that ...
The book has a fairly clear design. Chapters 1-2 are a series of messages to Israel and the other nations. Chapters 3-6 are a collection of poems that express Amos’ message to the people of Israel and its leaders. Chapters 7-9 contain a series of visions Amos experienced that visually depict God’s coming judgment on Israel.
Apr 1, 2019 · Fourth, Amos’s use of poetry reveals the intensity of God’s relationship with the world. The book is largely a blistering declaration of God’s impending judgment on Israel and the world. In fact, Amos uses a phrase for eschatological (end-time) judgment—“the day of the Lord” (Amos 5:18–20)—that the New Testament repeatedly echoes.
Jun 8, 2023 · Many studies of the prophetic books assume that a text’s addressee and audience are one and the same. Sometimes this is the case, but some prophetic texts feature multiple addressees who cannot be collapsed into a single setting. In this book, Andrew R. Davis examines examples of multiple addressees within the book of Amos and argues that ...
2 Overhearing in Lyric Poetry, Roman Satire, and Biblical Poetry 22 Introduction 22 Overhearing English Lyric Poetry 23 Overhearing Roman Satire 31 Overhearing Biblical Poetry 38 3 A Moveable Feast: The Multiple Addressees and Audiences of Amos 6:1 7 43 Introduction 43 The Historical Background of 6:2 46 Insights from Exegesis of Amos 6:2 50
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Jun 8, 2023 · Download Citation | The Book of Amos and its Audiences: Prophecy, Poetry, and Rhetoric | Many studies of the prophetic books assume that a text's addressee and audience are one and the same.
