1. “Prophets” Roeh- Diviner/Seer Ish-Elohim- Man of God
Ho-zeh- Seer/Raver/Dreamer
Nabi- prophet
Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Saul, Witch of Endor?, Elijah, Micaiah bin-Imlah, Elisha, Amos

2. Themes Justice: Retributive, Distributive, Restorative
Indictment of Systems
Purify Religion (Internalization of Torah)
Hope
Covenant Fidelity and Empire
Universalism

3. Monarchy: Moses vs. Solomon
“Classical” Prophets
Moses/ Levites
Aaron
Local shrines
Priest at Jerusalem
Patient
Gives in to people
Prophet/advocate
Idolatry
Monarchy: Moses vs. Solomon
Ivory Houses
Absentee Landowners
Corvee Labor
Temple/Palace Complex
Centralized worship: Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel => Jerusalem
Bureacracy
Monetary Economy
Hewn Stones

4. Characteristics Divine Call Divine Word Divine Vision Mighty Works
Prayer
Symbolic Action
Commissioned
Vision
Historiography
Biography
Divinatory Chronicles

5. Expression Judgment oracles Woe Oracles Riv/lawsuit Lament Allegory
Acrostic
Song
Hymn

6. Evaluation Visions/signs/wonders Use of the Name Fulfillment
Personal Integrity

7. Rhetoric Pun (Amos 8.1-2, Is. 5.7) Chiasm (ABB’A’) (Amos 2.11-12)
Hyperbole (Is )
Repetition: Superlative (Is. 6.3), Geminatio (Jer. 4.19), Anaphora (Jer ), Multiclinatum (Jer ), Parallelism (1.10)
Alliteration (Hebrew: Jer bait)
Inclusio (Amos 2.9, 5.2)
Accumulation (Jer 1.18)
Chain (Joel 1.4)
Tropes: Metaphor (Amos 3.8, 4.1), Simile (Hos 7.7), Abusio (Amos 1.2, Hos ), Epithet (Is. 30.7), Metonymy (Jer. 50.6), Synecdoche (Jer. 14.2), Merism (Jer ), Allegory (2 Sam )

8. Inherited materials
Collection
Commentary
Updating
Linking

9. (Neo)Assyria Exile: cultural genocide: people of the land & Samaritans
Fish hooks, dashing
Tribute or Siege
Warrior kings
Astral deities & Temple

10. Amos Summer Fruit & End (qayits & qets) Plumb line Day of the LORD
Images
Rhetoric
Summer Fruit & End (qayits & qets)
Plumb line
Day of the LORD
Nazarites drunk
Prepare to meet your God
“Prophet” or “Son of a prophet”
For ¾ and 7/8: beyond perfection
Parallelism
Pun (8.1 & 8.2)
Rhetorical Questions

11. Rev. Wright or Rev. Wrong?

12. Evaluate, both sympathetically and critically, in no more than 500 words, Rev. Wright’s content in light of your study of Amos.