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“Prophets”

“Prophets”. Roeh - Diviner/Seer Ish -Elohim- Man of God Ho- zeh - Seer/Raver/Dreamer Nabi - prophet Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Saul, Witch of Endor ?, Elijah, Micaiah bin- Imlah , Elisha , Amos. Themes. Justice: Retributive, Distributive, Restorative Indictment of Systems

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“Prophets”

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  1. “Prophets” • Roeh- Diviner/Seer • Ish-Elohim- Man of God • Ho-zeh- Seer/Raver/Dreamer • Nabi- prophet • Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Saul, Witch of Endor?, Elijah, Micaiah bin-Imlah, Elisha, Amos

  2. Themes • Justice: Retributive, Distributive, Restorative • Indictment of Systems • Purify Religion (Internalization of Torah) • Hope • Covenant Fidelity and Empire • Universalism

  3. “Classical” Prophets Monarchy: Moses vs. Solomon Ivory Houses Absentee Landowners Corvee Labor Temple/Palace Complex Centralized worship: Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel => Jerusalem Bureacracy Monetary Economy Hewn Stones

  4. Characteristics • Divine Call • Divine Word • Divine Vision • Mighty Works • Prayer • Symbolic Action • Commissioned • Vision • Historiography • Biography • Divinatory Chronicles

  5. Expression • Judgment oracles • Woe Oracles • Riv/lawsuit • Lament • Allegory • Acrostic • Song • Hymn

  6. Evaluation • Visions/signs/wonders • Use of the Name • Fulfillment • Personal Integrity

  7. Rhetoric • Pun (Amos 8.1-2, Is. 5.7) • Chiasm (ABB’A’) (Amos 2.11-12) • Hyperbole (Is. 10.19) • Repetition: Superlative (Is. 6.3), Geminatio (Jer. 4.19), Anaphora (Jer. 5.15-17), Multiclinatum (Jer. 11.18), Parallelism (1.10) • Alliteration (Hebrew: Jer. 49.15 bait) • Inclusio (Amos 2.9, 5.2) • Accumulation (Jer 1.18) • Chain (Joel 1.4) • Tropes: Metaphor (Amos 3.8, 4.1), Simile (Hos 7.7), Abusio (Amos 1.2, Hos. 10.13), Epithet (Is. 30.7), Metonymy (Jer. 50.6), Synecdoche (Jer. 14.2), Merism (Jer. 51.22), Allegory (2 Sam 12.1-4)

  8. Inherited materials • Collection • Commentary • Updating • Linking

  9. (Neo)Assyria • Exile: cultural genocide: people of the land & Samaritans • Fish hooks, dashing • Tribute or Siege • Warrior kings • Astral deities & Temple

  10. Amos Images Rhetoric • Summer Fruit & End (qayits & qets) • Plumb line • Day of the LORD • Nazarites drunk • Prepare to meet your God • “Prophet” or “Son of a prophet” • For ¾ and 7/8: beyond perfection • Parallelism • Pun (8.1 & 8.2) • Rhetorical Questions

  11. Rev. Wright or Rev. Wrong?

  12. Evaluate, both sympathetically and critically, in no more than 500 words, Rev. Wright’s content in light of your study of Amos.

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