TY  - BOOK
AU  - Linville,James Richard
TI  - Amos and the cosmic imagination
T2  - Society for Old Testament Study monographs
SN  - 0754693554
AV  - BS1585.53 .L56 2008eb
U1  - 224/.8077 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Bible
KW  - Amos
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - fast
KW  - Prophecy
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Prophétie
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Prophets
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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
N2  - 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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