REL 101 Lecture 3: RE 101 test 3
6 Feb 2020
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What was amos"s strategy by administering judgement to israel"s neighbors first, amos is inviting israel into agreement and sympathy before targeting his audience (pg. 1480: which nations does yahweh subject to judgement and what is different about the sins of. Judah and israel from sins of the other nations: damascus, gaza, tyre, edom, ammon, moab, judah, israel; the sins of judah and israel are against yahweh and their own people as opposed to war crimes (pg, 1479-83: what happened in israel"s economics during amos"s time that created the exploitation of the peasant class, with the long reign of jeroboam ii, he was able to install lasting economic policies to increase trade. The elite forced agricultural areas to produce cash crops (grain, olive oil, and wine) squeezing out peasant farmers and exhausting the soil. The drive for increased goods was so strong that the peasant class lacked food.
