The book of Amos and emergent Judahite national identity

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The book of Amos and emergent Judahite national identity "
Jason Herbert Radine B. B. Schmidt

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53950
Doc. No	:	TL23904
Call number	:	‭3276274‬
Main Entry	:	Jason Herbert Radine
Title & Author	:	The book of Amos and emergent Judahite national identity\ Jason Herbert Radine
College	:	University of Michigan
Date	:	2007
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2007
Page No	:	333
Abstract	:	This dissertation argues that the earliest level of the biblical book of Amos was composed after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians, not before, as traditionally assumed. This earliest layer consisted of most of the current book of Amos, with major exceptions being 1:3-2:5; 7:10-17; and 9:11-15. This earliest layer was written as part of the production of a national ideology in Judah in the late eighth or early seventh centuries BCE. The book of Amos was not a work of "prophecy" as it is known from the ancient Near East, but was instead a "literary-predictive text," that gives a vaticinium ex eventu "prediction" of the fall of Israel from a Judahite perspective. The text used themes of divine abandonment typically found in lament texts, and functioned as a sort of city-lament for Samaria and the rest of the northern kingdom. As such a text, it functioned to legitimate and justify Yahweh's destruction of the northern kingdom (with the implicit theme of his favor having moved southward), and to avert such a disaster from occurring in Judah. The later additions to the text of Amos were added to apply its message to exilic and post-exilic Judah.
Subject	:	Philosophy, religion and theology; Social sciences; Amos; Judahite; National identity; Prophecy; Religious history; Bible; Ancient civilizations; 0579:Ancient civilizations; 0320:Religious history; 0321:Bible
Added Entry	:	B. B. Schmidt
Added Entry	:	University of Michigan