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Amos’s Four Visions

Of judgment & hope

By H. Neil Richardson

Taking a short passage from the Bible and looking at it from a variety of perspectives can be very instructive. For example, from a short passage from the book of the eighth-century B.C. prophet Amos, we can learn: something about the problems of translation and why scholars sometimes emend (that is, change) the text; how a knowledge of everyday life in Bible times and of earlier pre-Israelite cultures help illuminate the text; something about the nature of the prophetic calling; and finally, a little about how to interpret the prophetic message—as one of hope rather than doom. The short […]

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Footnotes

1.

The letter sû is to be pronounced sh.

2.

The letter h is pronounced like a rough, or hard, ch.

3.

The letter s is to be pronounced ts.

Endnotes

1.

See Delbert R. Hillers, “Amos 7:4 and Ancient Parallels,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 26 (1964), pp. 221–225.

2.

Shmaryahu Talmon, “The Ugaritic Background of Amos VII, 4, ” Tarbiz 35 (1966), pp. 301–303.

3.

Benno Landsberger, “Tin and Lead: The Adventures of Two Vocables,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 24 (1965), pp. 285–296.

4.

F. Horst, “Die Visionsschilderungen der alttestamentlichen Propheten,” Evangelische Theologie 20 (1960), pp. 193–205; see p. 201.