Full Description
The volume brings together eight new essays on Amos, which focus on a range of issues within the book. They represent a number of different approaches to the text from the text-critical to teh psychoanalytical, and from composition to reception. Arising out of a symposium to honour John Barton for his 60th birthday, the essays all respond, either directly or indirectly, to his Amos's Oracles Against the Nations, and to his lifelong concern with both ethics and method in biblical study.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Katharine J. Dell
Amos and the Earthquake: Judgement as Natural Disaster
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Engendered Warfare and the Ammonites in Amos 1.13
Anselm C. Hagedorn
Edom in the Book of Amos and Beyond
Sharon Moughtin-Mumby
A man and his father go to Naarah in order to defile my holy name!': Rereading Amos 2.6-8
Aulikki Nahkola
Amos Animalizing: Lion, Bear and Snake in Amos 5.19
Paul M. Joyce
Amos and Psychological Interpretation
Andrew Mein
The Radical Amos in Savonarola's Florence
Hywel Clifford
Amos in Wellhausen's Prolegomena
Index of References
Index of Authors
