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Joel and Amos: A Commentary on the Books of the Prophets Joel and Amos is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joel and Amos lie adjacent to one another in the canon yet they mark the beginning and end of written prophecy. This commentary compares and contrasts the two books' prophecies, specifically focusing on each prophet's portrayal of the Day of Yahweh. Hans Walter Wolff's print edition totaled 392 pages.

in the future acts of God on behalf of his people. Joel probably has in mind a similar confidence, though not their proclamation. Thus he expects the new relationship to God in a form similar to Jer 31:33–34*:80 every one will stand in a relationship of immediacy to God. Only it is now not the Torah as the will of God for man that forms the content of the knowledge, as in Jer 31:33* and Ezek 11:19–20*; 36:26–27*, but the prophetic certainty of the coming acts of God on behalf of his people.
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