RT Article
T1 The Use and Abuse of Power in Amos: Identity and Ideology
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 39
IS 1
SP 101
OP 118
A1 Timmer, Daniel C.
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1777015928
AB Amos is notable for its critique of human claims to power within Israel as well as without. Intriguingly, Amos locates the resolution of such abuses in Yahweh's exercise of power as a cosmic king who eliminates some groups from among the nations and from within Israel while creating a new relationship between Yahweh and the remnants of both groups. Using an approach that gives priority to the semantic coherence of the text over its lesser diachronic features, this article explores these dynamics with attention to the criteria according to which Yahweh delivers one group and punishes another. It closes by pondering how the book of Amos itself should be subjected to ideological critique.
K1 Justice
K1 remnant
K1 Coherence
K1 Ideology
K1 Identity
K1 Power
K1 Amos
DO 10.1177/0309089214551516