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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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97890040701729004070176 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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eng |
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| Classification number |
BS1585 |
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.B3 1984 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Barstad, Hans M. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The religious polemics of Amos : |
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studies in the preaching of Am 2, 7B-8; 4, 1-13; 5, 1-27; 6, 4-7; 8, 14 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Hans M. Barstad |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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Leiden ; New York : |
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E. J. Brill, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1984 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xiv, 244 p. |
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25 cm. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Biblical interpretation series, |
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34 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
1. Introduction -- Preliminary remarks -- The prophet Amos -- 2. "Filius ac Pater eius ierunt ad Puellam" a study in Am. 2, 7B-8 -- Preliminary remarks. The context. -- Amos 2, 6-8 -- The problem of the maid -- Is the maid a cult prostitute? -- Cultic prostitution in the Ancient Near East -- The Old Testament evidence concerning cultic prostitution -- 3. The prophet as missionary, studies in Am. 4, 1-13 -- The cows of Bashan -- A digression. The cow as a fertility symbol int he Ancient Near East. A few examples -- The words of Amos against the cults in Bethel and Gilgal (Am. 4, 4-5) -- Bethel in the biblical tradition -- The archaeology of Bethel -- Gilgal in the biblical tradition -- The archaeology of Gilgal -- The transgressions of the Israelites at Bethel and Gilgal -- The text -- Am. 4, 6-11912) in the history of research, and how it should be interpreted -- The disasters of Am. 4, 6-11 -- 4. Religious polemics in Amos 5 -- The composition and contents of chapter 5 -- Lamentation and fertility. A few remarks -- The "Day of Yahweh" in Amos 5, 18-20 -- Preliminary remarks -- The "Day of Yahweh" in recent scholarship. A short outline -- ywm yhwh in the message of the prophets -- The origin of the idea of the "Day of Yahweh" in the prophets. A few remarks -- The "Sitz im Leben" of the "Day of Yahweh" in the prophets -- Amos 5, 18-20 -- Amos and the sacrificial cult. Am. 5, 21-24 -- Amos 5, 25-26 -- 5. Am. 6, 4-6. The mrzh institution -- Structure and contents of Am. 6, 1-14. The text of Am. 6, 4-7 -- The Ancient Near Eastern mrzh evidence. A survey -- The Old Testament -- An ostracon from Elephantine -- The Marseilles Tariff -- A Phoenician inscription from Piraeus -- The Nabatean evidence -- The Palmyrean evidence -- The Ugaritic mrzh texts -- The mrzh of Am. 6, 4-6 against its Ancient Near Eastern background -- 6. The deities of Am. 8, 14 -- The structure and contents of Chapter 8. The text of 8, 14 -- Swearing by the deity -- The Oath formula hy -- The deities of Am. 8, 14 -- Preliminary remarks -- The goddess Ashima of Samaria -- The Shima of II Kings 17, 30 and the Ashima of Am. 8, 14 -- The goddess Ashima and the Elephantine papyri -- The Hellenistic evidence concerning the goddess Simia -- A few final remarks on the goddess Ashima of the Old Testament -- Samaria in the Book of Amos and int he polemics of the prophets -- The God of Dan -- Dan in the biblical tradition -- The archaeology of Dan -- The drk of Beersheba -- Beersheba in the Bible and in archaeology. |
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Bible. Amos -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |