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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.

new revelation for them.”54 He is pursued by the admonition which Is 34 (a chapter to which he relates in several ways) formulates in v. 16*: “Seek from the book of Yahweh and read: Not one of them shall be missing, … for his mouth has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them.” Thus we are confronted here with a “learned prophecy” that takes up the received eschatological message with a burning passion for knowledge, and with the help of sapiential training, and gives it new expression in
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