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Author Linville, James Richard.

Title Amos and the cosmic imagination / James R. Linville.

Publication Info. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Society for Old Testament Study monographs
Society for Old Testament Study monographs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Transliteration Scheme; Preface; Part I: Imagining Amos; Part II: Speech and Theophany; Part III: Speech and Silence; Part IV: Who Will Not Prophesy?; Bibliography; Name Index; Scripture Index.
Summary Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by James Linville in light of new and sometimes controversial historical approaches to the Bible. Amos is read as the literary product of the Persian-era community in Judah. Its representations of divine-human communication are investigated in the context of the ancient writers' own role as transmitters and shapers of religious traditions. Amos's extraordinary poetry expresses mythical conceptions of divine manifestation and a process of destruction and recreation of the cosm.
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Subject Bible. Amos -- Commentaries.
Bible. Amos.
Genre/Form Commentaries.
Subject Bible. Amos -- Commentaries.
Bible. Amos.
Prophecy -- Christianity.
Prophecy -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Linville, James Richard. Amos and the cosmic imagination. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008 9780754654810 0754654818 (DLC) 2007025875 (OCoLC)148725841
ISBN 0754693554 (electronic book)
9780754693550 (electronic book)
0754654818 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780754654810 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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