inhumanity to one another, suggests this. These oracles involving foreign powers in Amos have always intrigued interpreters. They are not the customary oracles against foreign nations since those presuppose assaults on, or persecution of, Israel. Amos assumes the collective moral guilt of these nations and thus of the world outside of Canaan as well. He seems to be suggesting by the indictments following of Judah and Israel, for what seem by comparison trivial misdemeanours, that, because of privileged