Religion without justice is an affront to the God of Israel and, far from appeasing God, can only provoke divine wrath ( 5:21–27 8:4–10). He stresses the importance and the divine origin of the prophetic word ( 3:3–8) one must either heed that word in its entirety or suffer its disappearance ( 8:11–12). He boldly indicts kings, priests, and leaders ( 6:1 7:9, 16–17).

But he was no innovator his conservatism was in keeping with the whole prophetic tradition calling the people back to the high moral and religious demands of the Lord’s revelation.Īmos’s message stands as one of the most powerful voices ever to challenge hypocrisy and injustice. The priest of Bethel drove Amos from the shrine-but not before hearing a terrible sentence pronounced upon himself.Īmos is a prophet of divine judgment, and the sovereignty of the Lord in nature and history dominates his thought.

When Amos prophesied the overthrow of the sanctuary, the fall of the royal house, and the captivity of the people, it was more than Israelite officialdom could bear.

Israel could indeed expect the day of the Lord, but it would be a day of darkness and not light ( 5:18). The prophecy begins with a sweeping indictment of Damascus, Philistia, Tyre, and Edom but the forthright herdsman saves his climactic denunciation for Israel, whose injustice and idolatry are sins against the light granted to her. The book is an anthology of his oracles and was compiled either by the prophet or by some of his disciples. The poetry of Amos, who denounces the hollow prosperity of the Northern Kingdom, is filled with imagery and language taken from his own pastoral background. He prophesied in Israel at the great cult center of Bethel, from which he was finally expelled by the priest in charge of this royal sanctuary ( 7:10–17). Urn:oclc:66044434 Scandate 20111125014838 Scanner was a sheepbreeder of Tekoa in Judah, who delivered his oracles in the Northern Kingdom during the prosperous reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 B.C.). Urn:lcp:amosboris00stei:epub:2df8e734-90df-4be0-8215-02947eb5584d Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier amosboris00stei Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0gt6ms7t Isbn 0590444182ĩ780590444187 Lccn 77021946 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:32:27 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA108814 Boxid_2 CH113601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1971 Scholastic.

Amos & boris by william steig