The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

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 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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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.

And coming to Clermont he set on fire, overthrew and destroyed that shrine which they call Vasso Galatae in the Gallic tongue ," martyring many Christians ( Historia Francorum Book I. 32 – 34 ).

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* The World Book encyclopedia set, 1988.

The biblical Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of Persia.

Early in the year 1928 a second Measure ( known as the Prayer Book Measure 1928 ) was introduced in the Church Assembly, proposing to authorise the use of the Deposited Book of the previous year with certain amendments thereto which were set out in a Schedule to Measure.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Plato posited a basic argument in The Laws ( Book X ), in which he argued that motion in the world and the Cosmos was " imparted motion " that required some kind of " self-originated motion " to set it in motion and to maintain that motion.

"... hen we form a set of phenomena into a class, that is, when we compare them with one another to ascertain in what they agree, some general conception is implied in this mental operation " ( A System of Logic, Book IV, Ch.

The Eucharistic Prayer, as found in the Thanksgiving and Response section, is prayed by an authorized minister as set forth in The Book of Discipline.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

From Tolkien to the modern day, authors in this genre tend to create their own worlds where they set multi-tiered narratives such as the Belgariad, Malloreon, Wheel of Time, Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Black Company, The Sword of Truth, A Song of Ice and Fire, and Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.

Mormonism is a form of Christian primitivism that shares a common set of beliefs with the rest of the Latter Day Saint movement, including use of, and belief in, the Bible, as well as other religious texts including the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants.

Molds were made from the wood of a red tree in the forms of the sixteen dismembered parts of Osiris, the cakes of ' divine ' bread were made from each mold, placed in a silver chest and set near the head of the god with the inward parts of Osiris as described in the Book of the Dead ( XVII ).

Following a pattern set in the first congregation of Christians in Jerusalem described in the Book of Acts in the New Testament, the church is governed by presbyters ( a term and category that includes elders and Ministers of Word and Sacrament, historically also referred to as " ruling or canon elders " because they measure the spiritual life and work of a congregation and ministers as " teaching elders ").

The session of the local congregation has a great deal of freedom in the style and ordering of worship within the guidelines set forth in the Directory for Worship section of the Book of Order.

Tibetan Buddhism has developed a unique ' science ' of death and rebirth, a good deal of which is set down in what is popularly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

It came in a box set with four books: the Explorer Book, Technology Book, Gamemasters Book, and Creatures Book, a sheet of cardboard miniatures, reference and character sheets, and a set of dice: 2d20, 1d8, and 2d6.