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Book SynopsisIn The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, scholars from different fields and dealing with different material sources are trying to consider the Hebrew Bible as a whole. The development of new databases and other technological tools have an increasing impact on research practices. By inviting doctoral students, young researchers, and established scholars to contribute, this interdisciplinary book showcases methods and perspectives which can support future scientific collaborations in the field of the Hebrew Bible. This edited volume gathers relevant research from Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, Cairo Genizah Studies, European Genizah Studies, and from Late Medieval Biblical Manuscript Studies.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls Paleo-Hebrew Script: Its Roots in Hebrew Scribal Tradition  Antony Perrot and Matthieu Richelle 2 4Q216 and the Jubilees Creation Account: A Material Philological Analysis  Matthew Monger 3 Methods for the Reconstruction of Large Literary (Sc)rolls from Fragmentary Remains  Drew G. Longacre 4 Rethinking Methodological Approaches: The Phylactery Corpus from the Judean Desert as a Test Case  Anna Busa 5 LXX, between Textual Criticism and Redactional Criticism  Gilles Dorival 6 A New Proposal for the Identification and Interpretation of the Genizah Fragment T S D. 1.61’  Elvira Martín-Contreras 7 Two New Fragments from the Scribe behind the Leningrad Codex (B19a)  Kim Phillips 8 Biblical Manuscripts from the Collections of the National Library of Russia, and Their Use in the Textual Research of the Hebrew Bible  Viktor Golinets 9 Catalogues of Hebrew Manuscripts and the Cataloguing of Hebrew Fragments  Javier del Barco 10 Identifying the Model of a Copy: The Case of Colmar’s Biblical Fragments  Judith Kogel 11 The Question of Tagin Their Origin and Use: New Light from the Old Sefer Torah Recently Re-found in Bologna University Library  Mauro Perani 12 The MBH Project and the Systematic Study of Late Mediaeval Hebrew Bibles: New Perspectives and 3D Experiments  Élodie Attia and Léo Pascal 13 Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cairo Genizah and Books within Books: Towards a Comparative Study of the Manuscript Fragments of the Hebrew Bible  Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 14 Continuities and Parallels in the Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in the Second Temple Period and in the Middle Ages  Geoffrey Khan Index of Modern Authors Index of Sources and Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisExegesis has ethical dimensions. This is the case for the Bible, which has a foundational status in traditional perspectives that is simultaneously contested in the modern world. This innovative essay collection, largely about Hebrew Bible/Old Testament texts, is written by an international team – all Doktorkinder of a pioneer in this area, Professor John Barton, whose 70th birthday this volume celebrates. With interdisciplinary angles, the essays highlight the roles and responsibilities of the biblical scholar, often located professionally between religious and secular domains. This reflects a broader reality: all readers of texts are engaged ethically in the public square of ideas.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Notes on Contributors XV Introduction  Hywel Clifford and Megan Daffern Part 1: Establishing the Exegetical and the Ethical 1 The Basis of the Exegetical and the Ethical: What Is the Biblical Text?  Alma Brodersen 2 Prophecy and the United Monarchy: The Origins of Exegesis in Prophetic Imitation  James E. Patrick 3 How to Do Things with Scrolls: Writing and Ritual in Jeremiah 36  Laura Quick 4 Scepticism within the Academy: Questioning the History of Israel  Katharine Dell Part 2: Enabling the Exegetical and the Ethical 5 The Riddle Minor Genre in the Old Testament: Clarity and Obscurity  Aulikki Nahkola 6 Keeping Company in the Psalms: Ethics and Exegesis  Megan Daffern 7 Ethics in Song of Songs  Anselm C. Hagedorn 8 Yahweh as the Direction of Reference in Ezekiel’s Oracles Against the Nations  Andrew P. Langley 9 The Typological Interpretation of Scriptural Quotations in the New Testament: A Test Case for the Bible in the Academy  Benjamin Sargent Part 3: Enacting the Exegetical and the Ethical 10 From Exclusion to Inclusion? Deuteronomy 23:1–8 in Philo and Beyond  Hywel Clifford 11 Is There an Ethical Way to Read Genocidal Commands in “Holy Writ”?  Christian Hofreiter 12 The Wisdom of Jonah: Biblical Interpretation in Late Antiquity  Kris Sonek 13 A Tale of Two “Houses”: The Scandals of Hereditary Succession and Super-Mega-Church Construction in Korea, and Old Testament Ethics  S. Min Chun Conclusion  John Barton Index

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Book SynopsisElihu is among the most diversely evaluated characters in the Hebrew Bible. Attending to the inner-Joban allusions in the Elihu speeches (Job 32–37) provides both an explanation and appreciation for this diversity. After carefully defining allusion, this work identifies and interprets twenty-three allusions in Job 32–37 that refer to Job 1–31 in order to understand both their individual significance in the Elihu speeches and their collective significance as a compositional feature of the unit. This allusiveness is shown to both invite and explain the varied assessments of Elihu’s merits in the history of interpretation.

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Book SynopsisPrevious scholarship hints at the connection between Judges 19–21 and Ruth (as set in dialogue), but there has yet to be a study to articulate this relationship. Through a Bakhtinian-canonical perspective, a comparative analysis of these texts unveils intertextual correlations. Lexical and thematic connections include shared idioms, contrasting themes of חרם (“ban”) andחסד (“loving–kindness,” “covenant–faithfulness”), silence and speech, abuse and potential for abuse, gendered violence and feminine agency. This case-study reveals that Ruth, as a text and as a woman, embodies a voice of answerability to the silenced and abused women in Judges 19–21Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  Judges 19–21 and Ruth in Canonical Dialogue  Canon and Answerability  Reading Silence  Outline of the Book 2 The Answerability of Canon  A Voice for the Voiceless in Judges 19–21  The Polyphonic Nature of Canon  On the Quest for a Voice: Discovering the Utterance  The Chronotopes  Canon as a Voice of Answerability  The Use of נתח as a Voice of Canonical Answerability  Conclusion 3 Judges 19–21 as a Dialogic משל  Understanding Judges 19–21 as a Dialogic משל  Bakhtin’s Voice in the Dialogue of Genre  Dialogic משל  To “I.D.” a Body of Literature: An Unfinalized Threshold  The Instrument of Dismemberment: המאכלת  Thresholds: סף and מפתן  Conclusion 4 Haunted Dialogue  Utterances of the Mute and Mutilated (Judges 20 and 21)  If There Was “No King in Israel,” Who Is in Charge?  Not a King but Acting Like One  The Account of this Evil  The Reported Speech of the Levite  The Woman, the One Slain  Unity at Mizpah  Sons of Worthlessness—My Brother?  Name-Dropping as Theological-Political Symbols: The Ark of the Covenant of God and Phinehas  Mizpah: Oaths and Weeping  Conclusion 5 חרם in Canonical Dialogue  Thresholds of No Return: חרם  חרם as a Function of Grotesque Realism  Achan and Rahab: Who is Truly חרם in Joshua?  Narrative Setting  חרם: Why All the Fuss?  Canonical Answerability for the Silent?  Conclusion 6 Ruth’s Chronotope in the Canon  Ruth as a Traveling Text  Ruth as a Threshold Text  Dating of Ruth  Ruth’s Chronotope in the Canons  Form, Function, and the Dialogic Nature of Genre  Previous Scholarship on the Genre of Ruth  A New Way Forward: Ruth’s Function as a Dialogic משל  Ruth as a Dialogic משל and a Voice of Canonical Answerability  Answerability as a Feature of the Dialogism: Ruth and Tamar  Conclusion 7 The Answerability of Borders and Identity  Ruth 1: The Dialogical Nature of Names  Women in Relational Answerability: Naomi, Orpah and Ruth (Ruth 1)  The Chronotope of Borders: Between and in between Moab and Bethlehem  Borders of Ethnicity  Naomi, Ruth and Orpah: Relational Answerability  Naomi’s Lament  Intertextual Utterances  Conclusion 8 Chronotope Encounters in Ruth 2 and 3  Chronotopes of Field and Threshing Floor  The Chronotope of Encounter  Encounter with Boaz: A Dialogue of Identity  Ruth’s Response: Speak to the Heart  Canonical Answerability: Genesis 19 and Ruth 2  Chronotope of Encounter: The Threshing Floor  Ruth 3:9 in Canonical Dialogue with the Torah: Violator or Creative Agent?  Foreign Women in the Canonical Dialogue of Identity  Conclusion 9 Progentitive Problems in Ruth 4  Progenitive Problems Answered by Purchased Possessions  Chronotope of Encounter: The City Gate  Canonical Answerability for the Silent  Ruth’s Loophole of Identity  The Women of Bethlehem: A Voice of Answerability for Ruth and Naomi  The Canonical Dialogue of חסד in Ruth  Ruth Embodies חסד Towards Naomi  The Dialogic Encounter of Law and Narrative  Conclusion 10 Judges 19–21 and Ruth in Dialogue  Ruth as a Voice of Canonical Answerability  Ruth and Judges as a Dialogic משל  Idioms in Dialogue: נשא אשה (Judges 21:23; Ruth 1:4) and דבר על־לב (Judges 19:3; Ruth 2:13)  A Dialogue of Identity: The Women in Judges 19–21 and Ruth  Oaths in Dialogue  Ruth as the Reversal פילגש? Utterances of Identity and Alterity  Conclusion: Earth-Keeping and People-Keeping Appendix: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, an Unfinalized Life: A Brief Biography and Story of His Honorary Doctorate from Yale University Bibliography Index of Scriptures Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisNineteen friends and colleagues present this Festschrift to Ellen van Wolde, honouring her life-long contribution to the field of Biblical studies. The contributions focus on the major topics that define her research: the books of Genesis and of Job, and study of the Hebrew language. Profoundly inspired by the lasting legacy of the jubilarian, the articles present innovative and thought-provoking developments in the linguistic study of the Hebrew Bible, with a particular attention to cognitive linguistics, and in the research – literary as well as linguistic – of two of its most fascinating books.Table of ContentsPreface Part 1 Genesis A Coat of Many Colors and a Range of Many Dates The Origins of the Story of Joseph in Genesis 37–50  Robert Rezetko Yahweh’s Kin A Comparative Linguistic and Mythological Analysis of ‘The Children of God’ in the Hebrew Bible  Aren M. Wilson-Wright Be My Knife Representation and the Akedah Revisited  Diana Lipton The Symbolism of the Spatial-Temporal Concepts ‘in front of, before’ (לפני) and ‘behind, after’ (אחרי) in the Hebrew Bible, with a Special Focus on the Jacob Narratives  Talia Sutskover The πανοῦργος Problem Semantic Change and Septuagint Self-Criticism  James K. Aitken Ways of Understanding Divine Creation in Late Antique and Medieval Piyyut  Wout van Bekkum Imago Dei and the Challenge of Racism Soundings in the History of Interpretation of Genesis 1:26–27  Matthijs den Dulk Part 2 Book of Job The State of the Text of Job  David J.A. Clines Syntax and Poetics in the Interpretation of Job  Edward L. Greenstein Theory of Mind and Cognitive Dissonance in the Book of Job  Carol A. Newsom “Let Me Sow and Another will Eat?” The Meaning of the Cohortatives in Job 6:10 and Job 31:8  Hanneke van Loon What Are You Doing Here, Master Elihu? The Role(s) of Elihu in the Book of Job  Katharine J. Dell The Fate of the Wicked in Job 38:13–15 and the Birth of the Sea  Francis Landy Part 3 Hebrew Language and Linguistics Seeing and Shining The Extramission Theory of Vision and Hebrew Polysemy  Pierre Van Hecke The Conceptualisation of Heart as an Active Zone Body Part in Biblical Hebrew An Exploratory Study  Christo H.J. van der Merwe Conceptualizing Love in the Song of Songs  J. Cheryl Exum ‘But a Few Days’ Ways of Intensification of Love and Affection in Biblical Hebrew  Ruti Vardi The Root נחם Niphal and Hitpael in the Hebrew Bible Broken Continuity and Disengagement  Françoise Mirguet Voice, Discourse Prominence, and Aspect The Niphal and Passive Qal of Yālad  Camil Staps Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisIt is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction: Reading Irony in Ancient Texts  Tobias Häner and Virginia Miller Part 1: Irony in the Pentateuch 1 Respectful Parody of Exodus Traditions in Genesis 15–16  Mark G. Brett 2 Widerstand, Sympathie und Entlarvung: Ironie im Exodusbuch  Carolin Neuber 3 Is Leviticus Ironic? Exploring Narratival and Priestly Ironies in the Center of the Torah  Mark A. Awabdy 4 Die Ironie des Deuteronomiums  Benjamin Kilchör Part 2: Irony in the Writings 5 Gottes Fragen: Ironie in der ersten Gottesrede des Ijobbuchs (Ijob 38,1–39,30)  Tobias Häner 6 Ironic Criticism in the Prose Framework of Job  Raik Heckl 7 Not Parody, but Irony: Irony in the Book of Job  JiSeong J. Kwon 8 Irony in the Elihu Speeches?  Stephan Lauber 9 A Typological Interpretation of Job That Is Dependent on Irony  Virginia Miller 10 Mockery and Irony in the Psalms  Beat Weber 11 Ironic Contestations as a Care Strategy in Lamentations  Gregory Lee Cuéllar 12 Die Theologie des Buches Kohelet im Zeichen von Ironie und Ambiguität. Eine Skizze  Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger 13 Hosting Its Own Otherness: Irony in the Book of Esther  Timothy Beal Part 3: Irony in the Literature of the Prophets 14 An Ironic Overture in the Book of Jeremiah  Keith Bodner 15 Irony in Ezekiel’s Book  Stephen L. Cook 16 Entertaining Contradictions: Continuing the Conversation on Irony in the Book of Jonah  L. Juliana Claassens Part 4: Irony in the Deuterocanonical Books 17 “Foiled by the Hand of a Woman”: Irony in the Book of Judith  Stephen D. Cook 18 Ironie und Ambiguität im Buch der Weisheit  Luca Mazzinghi Part 5: Irony in the New Testament 19 The Source of Irony in the Fourth Gospel  John Painter 20 Disambiguating Forms of Irony in Second Corinthians 10–13  Matthew Pawlak Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problematic of the public at the heart of this ancient poetry? This edited volume seeks to reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song by exploring diverse contexts of reading, from Akkadian love lyrics, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Marc Chagall.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Song of Songs and Women’s Voices  Elaine James and Simeon Chavel Part 1: The Song of Songs: Literary and Theoretical Approaches 1 The Song of Songs and #MeToo  Critical Reading, Reparative Reading  Elaine James 2 Sex in Public in the Song of Songs  Rhiannon Graybill 3 The Speaker of the Song of Songs and Her Publics  Simeon Chavel 4 Speaking of the Other  Interest and Love in Song 5:2–8  Sarah Zhang Part 2: The Song of Songs in Historical Contexts 5 The Song, Cixous, and écriture féminine  F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp 6 Female Voices in Akkadian Love Poetry  Martti Nissinen 7 Recovering Women from the Scholars (Even from Me)  Deborah Green 8 Singing the Song Anew  Hildegard of Bingen as Interpreter of the Song of Songs  Karl Shuve 9 Women’s Voices and the Cost of Going Public  Song of Songs, Canonization and Safe Spaces  Anna Marsh 10 The Gendering of Sexual Agency  Case Studies from Song of Songs 8:5–14 and an Infamous Indian Trial  Havilah Dharamraj 11 Space and Regulation in the Song of Songs and Contemporary Sexual Politics  Yvonne Sherwood 12 Thinking with Pink  Affective and Sensate Readings of Marc Chagall’s Song of Songs  Fiona Black 13 How to Read the Work of ‘Great Artists Who Have Done Terrible Things’  Feminist and Womanist Biblical Scholarship and the #MeToo Debate on Cultural Texts of Terror  Karen V. Guth Index

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Book SynopsisTwenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables Sources Abbreviations and Sources Part 1 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible 1 The Possible Revision of Hebrew Texts according to the Masoretic Text 2 Textual Harmonization in Leviticus 3 The Tenth Commandment of the Samaritans 4 The Philosophy of the Biblia Hebraica Quinta Edition 5 The Formation of the (ProtoMasoretic Text 6 Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Le livre de Jérémie en perspective: “Introductory Remarks” 7 Orthographic Practices of the Biblical Texts 8 The Last Stage of the Literary History of the Book of Jeremiah 9 Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible in the Digital Age: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Use of Digital Tools 10 Vox Clamantis in Deserto: The History of the Interpretation and Misinterpretation of Isaiah 40:3 11 Copying the Torah: From the Time of the Judean Desert Scrolls to Modern Times Part 2 The Septuagint 12 From a Popular Jewish LXX-SP Text Block to Separate Group Texts: Insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls 13 The Textual Value of the Septuagint Version of the Minor Prophets 14 The Interaction between Theological and Text-Critical Approaches 15 The Renderings of the Divine Names in the Greek Torah 16 The Use of the Earliest Greek Scripture Fragments in Text Editions 17 The Palestinian Source of the Greek Translation of the Torah 18 Papyrus Nash and the Septuagint 19 Different Textual Traditions about Sheshonq-Shishak in the Hebrew and Greek Bible 20 The Use of the Septuagint in Critical Commentaries 21 P.Vindob.G. 39777 (Symmachus) and the Use of the Divine Names in Greek Scripture Texts 22 The LXX Translators’ Procedures in Representing Proper Names: Consistency in Representation Part 3 The Dead Sea Scrolls 23 The Qumran Tefillin and Their Possible Master Copies 24 The Background and Origin of the Qumran Corpus of Scripture Texts 25 Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel 26 ‘Luxury Scrolls’ from the Judean Desert Part 4 Reflections 27 Has the Field of Textual Criticism Changed in the Past Half-Century (1970–2023)? 28 Some Academic Memoirs Index of Ancient Sources Index of Authors

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Book SynopsisWhile the last four years has seen a renewed interest in dress in biblical studies, much of this work focuses on dress as object—what it is, looks like, and who wears it. In consequence, the symbolic and rhetorical function of dress in metaphors is often reduced to its function in “real life.” In response, this study bridges the conversation from what dress is to what dress is doing. By focusing on dress as subject and a concept, this study identifies constellations that hold prophetic metaphors of the investiture/divestiture of dress together with respect to identity formation/deformation, suffering, and destruction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Dress and Nakedness as Processes of the Self  1 Introduction  2 Dress and Perception Management: Research and Observations  3 Nakedness, Self, and Shame  4 Jerusalem as Woman, Body as Metaphor  5 Considerations of Gender  6 Covering and Uncovering the Body as a Source of Knowledge  7 Making Meaning in Metaphor 2 Jeremiah 13:20–27: Deficient Perspective, Dismal Perception  1 Introduction  2 Text and Translation  3 Overview of Dress in Jeremiah 13:20–27  4 שׁולים: Skirt, Hem, or Something Else?  5 The Removal of Jerusalem’s Skirt  6 Uncovering in Exile  7 An Incongruous Perception  8 Conclusion 3 Ezekiel 16: The Performative Body as Invitation to Shame  1 Introduction  2 Metaphor in Ezekiel 16: Background, Foreground, Somewhere in the Middle  3 Text and Translation  4 Overview of Dress and Nakedness in Ezekiel 16:1–34  5 Degrees of Nakedness  6 Divestiture as Shaming Act  7 The Performative Body: An Invitation to Shame  8 Conclusion 4 Isaiah 52:1–2: Dress as Event and Means of Perception Management  1 Introduction  2 Text and Translation  3 Overview of Dress in Isaiah 51–52  4 Destruction versus Dress  5 Dust and Chains No More  6 Dress as Perception Management: Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and Attention  7 Conclusion 5 Isaiah 61:10–11: Dress as Ritualization and Invitation to Transformation  1 Introduction  2 Text and Translation  3 Overview of Dress in Isaiah 61  4 Constitutive or Attributive?  5 Dress and Ritual  6 From Isaiah 61 to Isaiah 59  7 Perceiving Ritualization  8 Redefining the Boundaries of Body and City  9 Conclusion 6 Conclusion: A Deeper Love for Reality Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprehensively examines all texts dealing with social justice in the Prophecy of Amos. It also provides evidence of contemporary systemic social injustice. The volume then reflects on how biblical social justice is relevant to the contemporary quest for social justice. This volume demonstrates that irrespective of the hermeneutical challenges, the principles gleaned from the pages of the Hebrew Bible can dialogue effectively with modern issues and deduce living principles that could enable us to deal with issues that confront us today. It is thus a framework by which biblical social justice illuminates the contemporary quest for social justice.Table of ContentsContents Forewords  Walter J. Houston, Nimi Wariboko and J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Motivation  2 Background  3 The Gap  4 What to Expect  5 The Centrality of Social Justice in the Prophecy of Amos  6 Hermeneutical Challenges 2 Methodological Considerations  1 Introduction  2 Hermeneutical Challenges: the Starting Point  3 Transpositional Hermeneutics: the Foundation  4 Departing from Transpositional Hermeneutics  5 Active Transpositional Hermeneutics  6 Advantages of Active Transpositional Hermeneutics  7 African Biblical Hermeneutics  8 Synthesis 3 Social Justice in the Context of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Texts  1 Introduction  2 Expressing Social Justice in the Hebrew Bible  3 Ancient Near Eastern Expression of Social Justice  4 Agents for Delivering Social Justice in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Tradition  5 Approaches to Social Justice in Biblical and ANE Traditions  6 Working Definition of Social Justice  7 Summary 4 The Prophecy of Amos as a Model of Social Justice  1 Introduction  2 Background to the Prophecy of Amos  3 The Message of the Book of Amos  4 Social Justice in the Prophecy of Amos: the Prey, the Predator and the Protector  5 Conclusion 5 Social Justice Themes in the Prophecy of Amos  1 Introduction  2 Lack of Human Dignity in the Treatment of the Vulnerable (Amos 2:6–7)  3 Extortion (Amos 2:8)  4 Oppression (Amos 3:9–10; 4:1)  5 Bribery, Corruption and Miscarriage of Justice (Amos 5:7, 10, 12; 6:12)  6 Excessive Taxation of the Poor (Amos 5:11)  7 Carefree Extravagant Opulence amidst Abject Poverty (Amos 6:1–7)  8 Unjust Trade (Amos 8:4–6)  9 Ecological Injustice  10 Gender Abuse and Insensitivity  11 Positive Call for Social Justice (Amos 5:24)  12 Conclusion 6 Ghanaian Reading of Social Justice Themes in the Prophecy of Amos  1 Introduction  2 Choice of Ghanaian Bible Translations  3 Social Justice Themes in Amos in Mother Tongue Biblical Translations  4 Implications for Social Justice Awareness in Ghana 7 Issues of Contemporary Social Justice  1 Introduction: Methodological Issues  2 The Meaning of Social Justice  3 Contemporary Issues of Social Injustice  4 The Role of Some Churches in the Quest for Social Justice  5 Conclusion 8 The Grazing Sheep and the Screaming Fowl: Contemporary Social Injustice in the Light of the Prophetic Voice of Amos  1 Introduction  2 The Grazing Sheep and the Screaming Fowl  3 Social Justice in Contemporary Ghana and the Prophetic Voice of Amos  4 Conclusion Appendix: Selected Texts from the Prophecy of Amos in Hebrew (BHS), Gã, Akan and Ewe Bibliography Index

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