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Amos: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The life and mission of Amos, the shepherd and prophet, have always fascinated students of the Old Testament. This rancher-farmer from Tekoa, summoned dramatically by Yahweh to prophesy to Israel under the kingship of Jeroboam II (eighth century B.C.E.) about the corruption, injustice, and religious insincerity of his time, has intrigued scholars for centuries. Was Amos’ message one of judgment...

years and Jeroboam for forty-one, each setting a record for his kingdom up to that time. Coregencies may have been involved at the beginning of both their reigns and at the end of Uzziah’s, and the figures could be regarded as including such overlap periods. It says in 2 Kgs 14:23 that Jeroboam became king in the fifteenth year of Amaziah and in 2 Kgs 15:1–2 that Uzziah (Azariah) became king (aged sixteen years) in the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam II’s reign. E. R. Thiele (1965:77–89) has made
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