Book of Amos

Alternate Labels

• Amos
• Amos, Book of

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Key Passages

External readings

• A. Bentzen, “The Ritual Background of Amos 1.2-2.16,” Oudtestamentische Studien, VIII (Leiden: Brill, 1950), pp. 85-99.

• R. E. Clements, Prophecy and Covenant, Studies in Biblical Theology, No. 43 (Naperville, Ill: Alec R. Allenson, 1965), chapter. 6.

• D. R. Hillers, Treaty-Curses and the Old Testament Prophecy (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1964).

• Arvid Schou Kapelrud, Central ideas in Amos (Oslo: Oslo University Press, 1961).

• Arvid Schou Kapelrud, “New Ideas in Amos,” Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, XV (1965), pp. 193-206.

• James L Mays, “Amos,” The Old Testament Library (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1969)

• George Adam Smith, The Book of the Twelve Prophets, I, rev. ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1940).

• Samuel Tenien, “Amos and Wisdom,” in Israel’s Prophetic Heritage, Essays in honor of James Muilenburg, eds. Bernhard W. Anderson and Walter Harrelson, (New York: Harper & Row, 1962 ), pp. 108-115.

• Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, vol. II: The Theology of Israel’s Prophetic Traditions (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) pp. 131-32.

• H. H. Rowley, “Was Amos a Nabi?” in Gottes ist der Orient: Festschrift für Prof. D. Dr. Otto Eissfeldt (Berlin: Evangelische Verlaganstalt, 1959), pp. 191-98.

• James M. Ward, Amos and Isaiah: Prophets of the Word of God (New York: Abingdon, 1969).

• Hans Walter Wolff, Amos, the Prophet, trans. by Foster R. McCurley, ed. Reumann by John (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1973).