For several years now, I have been working jointly with Frank Andersen of the University of Queensland in Australia on a translation and commentary of Amos, the great eighth-century B.C. prophet. In the course of our detailed work, we have come to know the prophet quite well and indeed have become very attached to him. You will appreciate how pleased I was, then, to discover that our prophet shared a distinctive characteristic with only one other biblical personage—with the great Moses himself. God repents (hinnaµheµm in Hebrew) as a result of Amos’s intercession. I first noticed this when I […]
