Karl Möller, Reading Amos as a Book (Grove Biblical Series, 74; Cambridge: Grove Books, 2014)

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All too often the message of Amos is broken up and read in pieces – either devotionally, so that we know only the ‘purple passages,’ or academically, separating Amos’s original message from its later editing.

But reading it as a whole opens up powerful new understandings. We see Amos’s passion as he tries to persuade a complacent people to wake up to God’s judgment and grace – a message we desperately need to hear in our own day.

Contents

1. Getting Started

2. An Opening Trap (Amos 1-2)

3. Passionate Dialogue with a Late Audience (Amos 3.1-5.17)

4. Woes and Throes (Amos 5.18-6.14)

5. Visions of the End (Amos 7-9)

6. Reading Amos: Some Conclusions

7. Suggestions for Further Reading

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