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Amos, the third book of the Twelve \u201cMinor\u201d Prophets, begins with a descriptive superscription: \u201cThe words of Amos, a sheep breeder from Tekoa, who prophesied concerning Israel in the reigns of Kings Uzziah of Judah and Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake\u201d (1:1). This verse places the Prophet Amos in Judah in the 8<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE. That Amos is described as a \u201csheep breeder\u201d<\/span> from a village just south of Jerusalem, suggests that before becoming a prophet, Amos was an agriculturalist (see also 7:14) rather than an intellectual. Contemporary Biblical scholarship dates Amos as chronologically proceeding the prophecies preserved in the other prophetic books, though they come before in the traditional order of the books of the Hebrew Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curiously, Jewish tradition regards Amos as having had a speech defect like Moses (see Exodus 4:10). Leviticus Rabbah 10:2 and parallels preserve the following midrashic narrative of how Amos received his prophetic calling. Isaiah said: I was in my study-house, when I heard the voice of the Holy One saying: \u201cWhom shall I send? Who will go for us?\u201d (Isaiah 6:8). I sent Micah, but they struck him on the cheek, as it is written: \u201cWith a staff they strike on the cheek\u201d (Micah 4:14).\u00a0 I sent Amos, but they called him \u2018stammerer\u2019 (<\/span>pessilosa<\/span><\/em>\u2019 \u2013<\/span><\/i> Aramaic, from Greek <\/span>Psellos<\/span><\/em>). They said: Did the Holy One, blessed be He, have no one on which to settle His Shekhinah (Divine Presence) but on this tongue-tied stammerer?! Rabbi Pinchas said: Why was he called Amos? Because he was \u201claden of tongue\u201d (<\/span>amus bi-lshono<\/span><\/em>). <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

(Rashi to Amos 7:14 finds evidence of Amos\u2019s speech impediment in his having described himself as a <\/span>boles shiqmim<\/em> <\/span>(\u201cdresser of sycamore figs\u201d) when he meant to say <\/span>bolesh shiqmim<\/em> <\/span>(\u201cinspector of sycamore figs\u201d). This suggests that Amos exhibited, in contemporary clinical terminology, \u201cpalatal fronting\u201d in his pronouncing \u201csh\u201d as \u201cs\u201d).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the end of the 19th century, it has been asserted that \u201cAmos lays down, for the first time, the principles of a pure ethical monotheism\u201d (E.E. Atkinson, 1889).\u00a0 The words of Amos are regarded as the first Biblical prophecies to have been recorded in written form. In terms of literary style, \u201cAmos has always been admired for the purity of his language, his beauty of diction, and his poetic art\u201d. This is illustrated from the opening of his first recorded prophecy, which begins with a powerful and memorable audio-visual depiction: \u201cThe Lord roars from Zion. He shouts aloud from Jerusalem\u201d (Amos 1:2).<\/span><\/p>\n

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