Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.

The Book of Amos is set in a time when the people of Israel have reached a low point in their devotion to the God of Israel-the people have become greedy and have stopped following and adhering to their values.

The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes.

* Doorly, William J. Prophet of Justice: Understanding the Book of Amos.

* Hasel, Gerhard F. Understanding the Book of Amos: Basic Issues in Current Interpretations.

A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos.

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400 ), on Zechariah, Malachi, Hoseah, Joel, Amos ( from 406 ), on the Book of Daniel ( ca.

Image Comics released Comic Book Tattoo ( 2008 ), a collection of comic stories, each based on or inspired by songs recorded by Amos.

In the Book of Amos 9: 3 speaks of a serpent to bite the people who try to hide in the sea from God.

* Amos of Israel, future prophet and author of the Book of Amos ( according to Bible )

Thus ( Irenaeus, i. 30, p. 109 ) the first archon sent Moses, Joshua, Amos, and Habakkuk ; the second Samuel, Nathan, Jonah, and Micah ; the third Elijah, Joel, and Zechariah ; the fourth Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel ; the fifth Book of Tobit and Haggai ; the sixth Micah ( qu.

The title may refer to the Biblical Book of Amos 5: 24, " Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream " ( New International Version ).

In the Bible it is called Qer Harreseth, and is identified as having been subject to the Assyrian empire ; in the Books of Kings ( 16: 9 ) and Book of Amos ( 1: 5, 9: 7 ), it is mentioned as the place where the Syrians went before they settled in the regions north of Palestine, and to which Tiglath-Pileser III sent the prisoners after the conquest of Damascus.

) to whom is attributed the first thirty-nine chapters of the Book of Isaiah, followed upon Amos ' themes of justice and righteousness involving the poor as necessary for followers of God, denouncing those who do not do these things, stating:

Due to the lush vegetation on the sloped hillside, and many caves on the steeper side, Carmel became the haunt of criminals ; Carmel was seen as a place offering an escape from Yahweh, as implied by the Book of Amos.

This does not necessarily imply that Elisha had sought asylum there from any potential backlash, although the description in the Book of Amos, of the location being a refuge, is dated by textual scholars to be earlier than the accounts of Elisha in the Book of Kings, and according to Strabo it had continued to be a place of refuge until at least the first century.

It is considered by some that this stone circle was the ( unnamed ) religious sanctuary that was severely condemned by the Book of Amos ( Amos 4: 4, 5: 5 ) and Book of Hosea ( Hosea 4: 15 )

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Danishnama-i ' Alai is called " the Book of Knowledge for ' Ala ad-Daulah ".

It should be noted that the Book of Enoch is considered apocryphal by most denominations of Christianity and all denominations of Judaism.

* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

Akkad is mentioned once in the Tanakh — Book of Genesis 10: 10: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar ( KJV ).

In Book 7, Ajax is chosen by lot to meet Hector in a duel which lasts most of a whole day.

In Book 15, Hector is restored to his strength by Apollo and returns to attack the ships.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

In the Book of Exodus, Amram () Arabic عمران Imran, is the father of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam and the husband of Jochebed.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

* 1857 – " The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.

Using the biblical Book of Revelation as a point of departure, Caesar Antichrist presents a parallel world of extreme formal symbolism in which Christ is resurrected not as an agent of spirituality but as an agent of the Roman Empire that seeks to dominate spirituality.

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.

The Book of Micah is a prophetic book in the Tanakh / Old Testament, and the sixth of the twelve minor prophets.

Judaism addresses the end times in the Book of Daniel and numerous other prophetic passages in the Hebrew scriptures, and also in the Talmud, particularly Tractate Avodah Zarah.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

The Jews of his day ascribed the Book of Malachi, the last book of prophecy, to Ezra but if Ezra's name was originally associated with the book, it would hardly have been dropped by the collectors of the prophetic Canon who lived only a century or two subsequent to Ezra's time.

One conjecture holds that " Nazareth " is derived from one of the Hebrew words for ' branch ', namely ne · ṣer, נ ֵ֫ צ ֶ ר, and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11: 1, ' from ( Jesse's ) roots a Branch ( netzer ) will bear fruit.

A preterist discussion of the Tribulation has its focus on the Gospels, in particular the prophetic passages in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, the Olivet discourse, rather than on the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation.

It may be read with confidence, for its statements may be checked against that prophetic Book.

The Jewish Sages themselves considered this a prophetic work that was written during the time of the Prophet Jeremiah by his colleagues, but these latter prophets then attributed their result to king Solomon, just as other writings of Jewish Scripture have been written by one prophet while being attributed to another, such as the Book of Hosea, Isaiah, and others.

This seven-year week may be further divided into two periods of 3. 5 years each, from the two 3. 5-year periods in Daniel's prophecy where the last seven years are divided into two 3. 5-year periods, () The time period for these beliefs is also based on other passages: in the book of Daniel, " time, times, and half a time ", interpreted as " a year, two years, and half a year ," and the Book of Revelation, " a thousand two hundred and threescore days " and " forty and two months " ( the prophetic month averaging 30 days, hence 1260 / 30 = 42 months or 3. 5 years ).

A preterist discussion of the Tribulation has its focus on the Gospels, in particular the prophetic passages in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, rather than on the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation.

Chapter 14 of the Book of Isaiah refers to what Jewish exegesis of the prophetic vision of Isaiah 14: 12-15 identifies as King Nebuchadnezzar II ; the Hebrew word says " Helel ben Shaḥar " (" the shining one, son of the morning ").

Legends in medieval Europe attributed Virgil with prophetic powers, and sometimes more magical abilities, as in the fairy tale " Virgilius the Sorcerer " collected in The Violet Fairy Book.

Parsons adhered to the religion of Thelema, which had been founded in 1904 by the English occultist Aleister Crowley following a spiritual revelation that he had in the city of Cairo, Egypt, when — according to Crowley's own accounts — a spirit being known as Aiwass dictated to him a prophetic text known as The Book of the Law.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets (, Trei Asar, " The Twelve "), occasionally Book of the Twelve, are the collection constituting the last book of the Jewish Tanakh's Nevi ' im and the last twelve books of the Old Testament ; the terms " minor prophets " and " twelve prophets " can also refer to the twelve writers of these prophetic works.

The noteworthy exception is the Book of Jonah, an anonymous work containing no prophetic oracles, probably composed in the Hellenistic period ( 332 BCE – 167 BCE ).

However, the Roman Catholic Church accepts Revelation 12 as a reference to Mary, Israel, and the Church as a three-fold symbolism through the Book of Isaiah and affirms Mary as the mother of Jesus as the prophetic fulfilment described in Revelation 12 ( cf.

Among the principal relevant prophetic texts are those found in the Jewish Bible or Old Testament in the Book of Daniel, the book of Isaiah and the Book of Ezekiel, and those found in the New Testament in the Book of Revelation.