The religious polemics of Amos : studies in the preaching of Am 2, 7B-8; 4, 1-13; 5, 1-27; 6, 4-7; 8, 14 - Barstad, Hans M. (Leiden ; New York : E. J. Brill, 1984)
1. Introduction -- Preliminary remarks -- The prophet Amos -- 2. "Filius ac Pater eius ierunt ad Puellam" a study in Am. 2, 7B-8 -- Preliminary remarks. The context. -- Amos 2, 6-8 -- The problem of the maid -- Is the maid a cult prostitute? -- Cultic prostitution in the Ancient Near East -- The Old Testament evidence concerning cultic prostitution -- 3. The prophet as missionary, studies in Am. 4, 1-13 -- The cows of Bashan -- A digression. The cow as a fertility symbol int he Ancient Near East. A few examples -- The words of Amos against the cults in Bethel and Gilgal (Am. 4, 4-5) -- Bethel in the biblical tradition -- The archaeology of Bethel -- Gilgal in the biblical tradition -- The archaeology of Gilgal -- The transgressions of the Israelites at Bethel and Gilgal -- The text -- Am. 4, 6-11912) in the history of research, and how it should be interpreted -- The disasters of Am. 4, 6-11 -- 4. Religious polemics in Amos 5 -- The composition and contents of chapter 5 -- Lamentation and fertility. A few remarks -- The "Day of Yahweh" in Amos 5, 18-20 -- Preliminary remarks -- The "Day of Yahweh" in recent scholarship. A short outline -- ywm yhwh in the message of the prophets -- The origin of the idea of the "Day of Yahweh" in the prophets. A few remarks -- The "Sitz im Leben" of the "Day of Yahweh" in the prophets -- Amos 5, 18-20 -- Amos and the sacrificial cult. Am. 5, 21-24 -- Amos 5, 25-26 -- 5. Am. 6, 4-6. The mrzh institution -- Structure and contents of Am. 6, 1-14. The text of Am. 6, 4-7 -- The Ancient Near Eastern mrzh evidence. A survey -- The Old Testament -- An ostracon from Elephantine -- The Marseilles Tariff -- A Phoenician inscription from Piraeus -- The Nabatean evidence -- The Palmyrean evidence -- The Ugaritic mrzh texts -- The mrzh of Am. 6, 4-6 against its Ancient Near Eastern background -- 6. The deities of Am. 8, 14 -- The structure and contents of Chapter 8. The text of 8, 14 -- Swearing by the deity -- The Oath formula hy -- The deities of Am. 8, 14 -- Preliminary remarks -- The goddess Ashima of Samaria -- The Shima of II Kings 17, 30 and the Ashima of Am. 8, 14 -- The goddess Ashima and the Elephantine papyri -- The Hellenistic evidence concerning the goddess Simia -- A few final remarks on the goddess Ashima of the Old Testament -- Samaria in the Book of Amos and int he polemics of the prophets -- The God of Dan -- Dan in the biblical tradition -- The archaeology of Dan -- The drk of Beersheba -- Beersheba in the Bible and in archaeology.
Keywords: Bible. Amos -- Criticism, interpretation, etc