Amos and the Cosmic Imagination
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781351163002
Subjects: Commentaries; Bible
Description: "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 cosmos which reveals that behind the appearances of the natural world is a heavenly, cosmic temple."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Imagining Amos --; title: chapter 1 Landscaping Amos' Cosmic Temple  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 2 Amos among the Historians, Mythmakers and Poets  -- James R. Linville; title: part, II Speech and Theophany --; title: chapter 3 The Words of Amos: Amos 1:1-2  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 4 Eight Nations: Amos 1:3-2:16  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 5 The Mantle of Amos: Amos 3:1-15  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 6 On Mountains and High Places: Amos 4:1-13  -- James R. Linville; title: part, III Speech and Silence --; title: chapter 7 Lament: Amos 5:1-17  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 8 Festival of Exile: Amos 5:18-27  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 9 No One, No Sound, Nothing: Amos 6  -- James R. Linville; title: part, IV Who Will Not Prophesy? --; title: chapter 10 Deception: Amos 7:1-17  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 11 Silent Harvest: Amos 8:1-14  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 12 The Capital: Amos 9:1-6  -- James R. Linville; title: chapter 13 The Turning: Amos 9:7-15 -- James R. Linville.