The Book of Amos and its Audiences

Andrew R. Davis

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Many studies of the prophetic books assume that a text's addressee and audience are one and the same. Sometimes this is the case, but some prophetic texts feature multiple addressees who cannot be collapsed into a single setting. In this book Andrew R. Davis examines examples of multiple addressees within the book of Amos and argues that they force us to expand our understanding of prophetic audiences. Drawing insight from studies of poetic address in other disciplines, Davis distinguishes between the addressee within the text and the actual audience outside the text. He combines in-depth poetic analysis with historical inquiry and shows the ways that the prophetic discourse of the book of Amos is triangulated among multiple audiences.

Book Details

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publish Date: Jun 22nd, 2023
Pages: 350
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.56in - 0.86lb
EAN: 9781009255875
Categories: • Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General• Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament

About the Author

Davis, Andrew R.: - 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).

Praise for this book

'[T]his is a wonderful book for those interested in the prophets, particularly Amos, and for how that book was transmitted and (re)interpreted before it became our canonical Amos.' Andrew R. Davis, The Bible Today