The Book of Amos and its Audiences

Prophecy, Poetry, and Rhetoric

Andrew R. Davis (Boston College, Massachusetts)

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Cambridge University Press
22 June 2023

Poetry; Old Testaments; Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts

Series: Society for Old Testament Study Monographs

Many studies of the prophetic books assume that a text's addressee and audience are one and the same. Sometimes this is the case, but some prophetic texts feature multiple addressees who cannot be collapsed into a single setting. In this book Andrew R. Davis examines examples of multiple addressees within the book of Amos and argues that they force us to expand our understanding of prophetic audiences. Drawing insight from studies of poetic address in other disciplines, Davis distinguishes between the addressee within the text and the actual audience outside the text. He combines in-depth poetic analysis with historical inquiry and shows the ways that the prophetic discourse of the book of Amos is triangulated among multiple audiences.

By: Andrew R. Davis (Boston College Massachusetts)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781009255875
ISBN 10: 1009255878
Series: Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 22 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: multiple audiences, overhearing, and entrapment; 2. Overhearing in lyric poetry, Roman satire, and biblical poetry; 3. A moveable feast: the multiple addressees and audiences of Amos 6:1-7; 4. Foreign address and home audiences in Amos 3:9-11; 5. Scribal prophecy and the post-exilic audience of Amos 7:10-17; 6. Epilogue.

Andrew R. Davis is associate professor at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry and the author of Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context (2013) and Reconstructing the Temple: The Royal Rhetoric of Temple Renovation in Ancient Israel and the Near East (2019).

Reviews for The Book of Amos and its Audiences: Prophecy, Poetry, and Rhetoric

'[T]his is a wonderful book for those interested in the prophets, particularly Amos, and for how that book was transmitted and (re)interpreted before it became our canonical Amos.' Andrew R. Davis, The Bible Today