Background Paper on Amos

I. Introduction The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with the background of this Amos. The author, audience, date, place of writing, opportunity and purpose, and literary genre of Amos will be explored. This study was done using internal evidence from Amos and other respected external sources. II. A writer's poem Amos 'book may confuse the author - "Amos' word, he is one of Tekoa's shepherds - he saw Israel's vision two years before the earthquake ... .. "(Amos 1: 1)

Before becoming a prophet, Amos was a shepherd and a farmer of FIG. His argument that his previous occupation and "I am neither a prophet nor a son of a prophet" (7: 14) indicates that Amos is not from the prophetary school. The Amos' declaration shows the turning point in the evolution of the Old Testament prophecies. Almost all the prophets who are reporting important in Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Hebrew Bible are not mere opportunities. The latter tried to protest that they are suspects of professional prophets as they worsened public vanity and made themselves lose their trust without considering celebrity crime .

The author of Amos was identified as the Prophet Amos. Amos was the first prophet in the Bible and his message was recorded. Although he was from a small town in Judah, he preached to the people of the kingdom of northern Israel in the mid-eighth century BC. This book may have been written from 760 BC to 753 BC. As a shepherd and fruit picker from the village of Judean Tekoa, he was summoned by God despite lacking education and pastor's career. His mission is to target neighbors in northern Israel. It is a prosperous, remarkable religious belief, an era of clear public order. However, Amos believes that prosperity is limited to rich people and that it is devastating the inequity and oppression of the poor. Amos' service came about when Jeroboam II dominated Israel, when Udia dominated Judah. Amos can understand Israel's foreign prosperity and strengths, and at home the country is the center of corruption.