Book of Amos and Its Audiences - Prophecy, Poetry, and Rhetoric

"This book brings the prophetic poetry of the book of Amos into conversation with recent studies of poetry in other disciplines. By distinguishing between the poetic addressee within the text and the actual audience outside the text, the book explores the way poetic discourse is triangulated among multiple audiences"--

List of contents

1. Introduction: multiple audiences, overhearing, and entrapment; 2. Overhearing in lyric poetry, Roman satire, and biblical poetry; 3. A moveable feast: the multiple addressees and audiences of Amos 6:1-7; 4. Foreign address and home audiences in Amos 3:9-11; 5. Scribal prophecy and the post-exilic audience of Amos 7:10-17; 6. Epilogue.

About the author

Andrew R. Davis is associate professor at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and the author of Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context (2013) and Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in Ancient Israel and the Near East (2019).

Summary

This book brings the prophetic poetry of the book of Amos into conversation with recent studies of poetry in other disciplines. By distinguishing between the poetic addressee within the text and the actual audience outside the text, the book explores the way poetic discourse is triangulated among multiple audiences.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew R Davis, Andrew R. Davis, Andrew R. (Boston College Davis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009255875
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0925587-5
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Society for Old Testament Stud; Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Old Testaments