Amos

Rainer Kessler, David E. Orton, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr, Adele Berlin, Erhard Blum, Irmtraud Fischer, Shimon Gesundheit, Walter Groß, Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard M. Levinson, Ed Noort, Helmut Utzschneider, Beate Ego

• Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783170422612
• Topic: Theologie & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblischer Kommentar

This commentary examines the book of Amos as it appears in the Hebrew Bible: a collection of messages from a prophet in the 8th century BCE who warned that the Kingdom of Israel would fall because of the wrongs of its wealthy elite. Despite this warning, the book ultimately offers hope for a restored future to the survivors in Judah and Israel. The analysis traces how Amos's original message - now only faintly visible - was reshaped by later scribes after Israel=s fall, leading to the final version likely completed during the Persian period.

Table of contents

• Editors’ Foreword
• Author’s Preface
• Introduction
• Superscription and Motto (Amos 1:1–2)
• The Poem of the Nations (Amos 1:3–2:16)
• The Collection of Amos’s Words in Amos 3–6
• Introduction to the Collection of Sayings in Amos 3–6 (Amos 3:1–8)
• Words against Samaria and the Sanctuaries of the Northern Kingdom (Amos 3:9–4:5)
• Repentance Refused (Amos 4:6–13)
• Lamentation for the Dead and a Glimmer of Hope (Amos 5:1–17)
• From Worship into Exile (Amos 5:18–27)
• From Feasting to Exile and Foreign Rule (Amos 6:1–14)
• The Visions of the Impending End in Amos 7:1–9:6
• Amos’s First Four Visions and His Expulsion from Beth-El (Amos 7:1–8:3)
• What Happens Next (Amos 8:4–9:4)
• Yhwh—the Lord of the Cosmos (Amos 9:5–6)
• The Elimination of Sinners and a Secure Future (Amos 9:7–15)
• Appendix
• Plan of volumes