Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel
Taken from The Women's Bible Commentary
contributor: SPCK - Newsom, Ringe and Lapsley
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Violence Condemned and Condoned? Oracles against the Nations and Israel
In the first verse of Amos’s speech, the prophet refers to God in the third person: “YHWH roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem” (1:2). In the Hebrew Bible, Zion is associated, directly and indirectly, with the mighty, immovable mountain of God, which was
thought to lie at the centre of the world…
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