Talk:Amos (prophet)

More Information
I visited the page of Amos here in Wikipedia in hopes that it will help me for one of my projects, but it turned out that it didn't have the information I needed. Can someone add in more information about his teachings perhaps that will help not only me but also other people? Thanks! --- PrettyPetite Talk  06:53, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Starting year
The year given as the start of Amos' 'prophetic career' (750BC) is not consistent with either the best estimates for the 'earthquake' (c. 760BC) during Uzziah's reign (791-740BC), nor does it fall within the reign of Jeroboam of Israel (793-753BC). Can someone provide a quote from the cited source, or provide any other justification for why 750BC has been given despite more likely reckonings?!-- Jeffro 77 (talk) 06:36, 12 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Because no one answered your question in three years, I have replaced the 750 date with 760-755, and added a citation indicating near-unanimous scholarly support for that date. The source is a book by InterVarsity Press, which I'm sure would raise eyebrows with some scholars, but given the claim about near-unanimity of scholarship on this topic, I went ahead. If anyone wants to repeat the same information from another source, feel free. But I felt comfortable including it because this doesn't seem to be a controversial question. Alephb (talk) 01:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * InterVarsity Press is a very reputable scholarly publisher, and its inclusion in beneficial. Ross.woods (talk) 06:54, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

1906 encyclopedia
This article contains at least a few sentences lifted from the entry on "Amos" written by Karl Budde, Kaufmann Kohler, and Louis Ginzberg, in the Jewish Encyclopedia (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1423-mos). For example, this passage has been copied over, more or less unchanged: "Amos' attitude marks a turning-point in the development of Old Testament prophecy. It is not mere chance that Hosea, Isaiah (ch. vi.), Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and almost all of the prophets who are more than unknown personages to whom a few prophetical speeches are ascribed, give first of all the story of their special calling. All of them thereby seek to protest against the suspicion that they are professional prophets, because the latter discredited themselves by flattering national vanities and ignoring the misdeeds of prominent men." Though the Encyclopedia is in the public domain, it still seems a little odd that it is merely cited as a reference. Is there some convention for crediting that Encyclopedia properly? Omphaloscope talk 15:58, 21 January 2018 (UTC)