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

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Houston, Walter J.

 
9781350008991: Amos: An Introduction and Study Guide: Justice and Violence (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350008990 ISBN 13: 9781350008991
Publisher: T&T Clark, 2017

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.

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About the Author

The Rev. Dr Walter J. Houston is Fellow Emeritus at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester, UK. He is a contributor to the Oxford Bible Commentary and Eerdmans Bible Commentary.

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350008990
ISBN 13 
9781350008991
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128