TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff,Hans Walter
TI  - Amos, the prophet: the man and his background
SN  - 0800600126
AV  - BS580.A6 W6513
U1  - 221.9/24B 
PY  - 1973///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Amos
N1  - Translation of Amos' geistige Heimat; Bibliography: p. 90-96; The necessity of the question of background, and the approach toward the answer -- Rhetorical forms characteristic of Amos: The didactic question;  The "woe-cry";  The numerical sequence;  The exhortation speech -- Characteristic themes: Israel and the nations;  The "right" way; Justice and righteousness;  Individual themes -- Peripheral problems: Tekoa;  The house of Isaac;  Amos and Isaiah;  Wisdom and the proclamation of judgment -- Amos lives out of the oral tradition of Ancient Israel: Clan wisdom -- Bibliography of writings by Hans Walter Wolff and about the subject of this book
ER  -