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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782210703321

Autore

Linville James R.

Titolo

Amos and the Cosmic Imagination / / James R. Linville

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

9780817185837

1-138-61885-3

1-351-16300-0

1-351-16298-5

1-281-79880-0

9786611798802

0-7546-9355-4

Edizione

[1st.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Society for Old Testament Study monographs

Disciplina

224

224.8077

224/.8077

Soggetti

Prophecy - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Transliteration Scheme; Preface; Part I: Imagining Amos; Part II: Speech and Theophany; Part III: Speech and Silence; Part IV: Who Will Not Prophesy?; Bibliography; Name Index; Scripture Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 cosm