Joel and Amos: An Introduction and Commentary

by Tchavdar S. Hadjiev, David G. Firth (Editor), Tremper Longman III (Editor)

Overview

Joel's arresting imagery—blasting trumpet, darkened sun, and marching hosts—has shaped the church's eschatological vision of a day of wrath. Amos's ringing indictments—callous oppression, heartless worship, and self-seeking gain—have periodically awakened the conscience of God's people. Twenty-five-hundred years later, those prophetic words still speak powerfully. This Tyndale commentary by Tchavdar Hadjiev on the books of Joel and Amos examines their literary features, historical context, theology, and ethics.

The Tyndale Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting, and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties.

In the new Old Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment, and Meaning. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830842728
Publisher:	InterVarsity Press
Publication date:	11/17/2020
Series:	Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries , #25
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Tchavdar S. Hadjiev is lecturer in Old Testament study and Hebrew at Belfast Bible College as well as honorary lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of The Composition and Redaction of the Book of Amos and Joel, Obadiah, Habakkuk and Zephaniah.

David G. Firth is Old Testament tutor and head of research at St John's College, Nottingham.

Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary.Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

Table of Contents

General preface vii

Author's preface ix

Chief abbreviations xi

Select bibliography xv

Joel

Introduction 1

1 Structural patterns in the book of Joel 1

2 The date of the book 5

3 Joel and the 'Book of the Twelve' 7

4 Joel and intertextuality 8

5 The setting and genre of the book 10

6 The message of Joel 12

Analysis 17

Commentary 19

AMOS

Introduction 59

1 The book of Amos as a work of literature 59

2 Amos the prophet 67

3 The political and social context of Amos's preaching 73

4 Interpreting the book of Amos 78

5 Theology and ethics in Amos 82

Analysis 89

Commentary 91