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“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
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Themes Justice: Retributive, Distributive, Restorative
Indictment of Systems Purify Religion (Internalization of Torah) Hope Covenant Fidelity and Empire Universalism
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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
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Characteristics Divine Call Divine Word Divine Vision Mighty Works
Prayer Symbolic Action Commissioned Vision Historiography Biography Divinatory Chronicles
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Expression Judgment oracles Woe Oracles Riv/lawsuit Lament Allegory
Acrostic Song Hymn
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Evaluation Visions/signs/wonders Use of the Name Fulfillment
Personal Integrity
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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 )
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Inherited materials Collection Commentary Updating Linking
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(Neo)Assyria Exile: cultural genocide: people of the land & Samaritans
Fish hooks, dashing Tribute or Siege Warrior kings Astral deities & Temple
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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
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Rev. Wright or Rev. Wrong?
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Evaluate, both sympathetically and critically, in no more than 500 words, Rev. Wright’s content in light of your study of Amos.
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