Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 20 March 1981. Amos’s Oracles against the Nations. By John Barton. Cambridge University Press. £7.50. Dr. Barton’s brief (only 83 pages) but very scholarly monograph analyses the opening section of the biblical book of Amos in which the prophet denounces the Arameans, the Philistines and the rest not for offences…
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