Loading…

Amos: A Commentary on the Book of Amos is unavailable, but you can change that!

Shalom M. Paul makes extensive use of ancient Near Eastern sources and employs medieval Jewish exegesis along with modern Israeli biblical scholarship. This specialized research makes the commentary on Amos an essential addition to any study on the minor prophet. This electronic version features 440 pages of print material.

holy voice (qlh qdš); the high places of the ea[rth] quake.”58 An added dimension in this verse is the figure of speech portraying the warrior God with the sound imagery of a lion. The description of a deity likened to a lion is also known from the Bible (for example, Hos 5:14*; 11:10–11*; 13:7–8*)59 as well as from Egyptian60 and Mesopotamian sources,61 with many of the verbs designating the sound of the roaring common to the “roar” of the gods as well as to the “roar” of lions.62 In
Page 39
Buy this book at Logos.com