Explanations for Exile in Amos
Campos, Martha![Explanations for Exile in Amos](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/371/37174413/CHSBZCOP0337174413.jpg)
In four places, Amos announces Israel's coming exile to Assyria: 4.1-3, 5.25-27, 6.1-14 and 7.7-17. It will be Yahweh's punishment for social injustice. But who is to blame?
Most scholars think it is the women (and men) of the mid-eighth-century bce Israelite upper class. Not so, says Campos. It is the kings who are the culprits. Kings should champion social justice, as we know from ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical books like Jeremiah...