This article investigates features of the language of Am 7,1–8,3 which promote the cohesion of the text, and how these interact with rhetorical features of the text to promote a coherent message. In this passage, repetition of lexical stock is a particularly strong cohesive feature. It promotes reading the vision accounts, both the three which precede and the one that follows, with the biographical narrative in 7,10–17. Thus despite marked differences of genre and point of view, first person in the vision accounts and third person in the narrative, the sections of this passage as we have it work together. Together they promote the claim that Amos was a true prophet, and that his message of disaster for the kingdom of Israel was indeed a word from the LORD.
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¶ 6:55 PM
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Nichthus wrote (but I deleted it by mistake :(
Hi Tim -
Did Google give a reason?
Yes, and a reasonable one, what I find less than helpful is short notice and no easy path to migrate the blog to an alternative system. I don't expect something for nothing as a right, but I do expect that a huge company like Google will give reasonable notice.
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Tim, at
March 12, 2010 11:19 AM
- destroyed by diary, to the extent that I wonder if I can justify the purchase of a Google Calendar compatible phone as an alternative to formatting the harddrive to start fresh,
- refused to permit me to use my memory stick, making me late for church as I emailed the file to myself on another computer, to put it on the USB stick,
- intermittently synched my email so that I have lost really important messages (don't ask, somehow it overwrote to good copy with the difficient one),
- and generally consumed hours every day to no productive purpose
But, I noticed a pattern. OSs with stupid twee names, like "Vista" or "Me" don't work. Or like "Windows" itself they only work when they reach a later itteration (in that case 3.1 for XP a mere service pack did the trick). The reason is obvious, if the OS sucks then give it a stupid name in the homes no one will notice... and then I read Judy's post on things she hates about abstracts and other aspects of academic publishing... scholars do it too! Got a paper whose arguments don't stack up? Give it a stupid title, and hope no one will notice. If Judy is right we probably won't, because none of us will actually read the thing ;)
Shame we can't just ignore OSs with stupid names... but manufacturers install them for us, so we can't. Though we can go Open Source :) So should I install Karmic Koala, or wait for the more sensible sounding Lucid Lynx?
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¶ 3:12 PM
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Windows 7 is actually OK, though. If you found your way around Vista, then it will feel familiar (I *didn't* but I can do Vista if I have to now that I have 7) but it works really nicely. I always swore I wouldn't install a Windows operating system until they'd at least released the first Service Pack. I really, really needed a new laptop, though, and Vista wouldn't let me install my Coptic keyboard, so I waited until the day after Dell started selling laptops with 7 installed and bought one. I've been using it for four months now with no problem except those caused by my failure to realise that I had ordered the 64 bit version which causes some hardware compatibility problems. Of course, I *am* running Ultimate on a quite powerful system, but something that will run Vista well will run 7 well too.
By Judy Redman, at
March 4, 2010 9:54 PM
Tim, I've been using Ubuntu for abotu 4 years. It was a small learning curve but it is very stable and works.
The only thing that might cause you problems is if youve got libronix and the like, they might not work without a larger learning curve!
By 
Graham Doel, at
March 4, 2010 11:36 PM
Judy,
Yes, that's what I hear, but it just seems wrong to pay someone to fix the mess they made!
Graeme,
It is Bible works (absolutely vital for the Bible texts etc.) and Libronix (really really useful as a portable library) that stop me, I am told BW runs well in Wine, but doubt that Libronix would it's such a Microsoft of a program, trying to do everything for you all the time.
By Tim, at
March 5, 2010 6:31 AM
Actually, it's a portable - not a "lap" top. Apparently a few years ago someone got burnt from the heat of the processor so close to their legs, so they changed the term.
By scrubone, at
March 5, 2010 9:37 AM
Mine was sold as a "laptop", and that's how I use it, I also own a portable, but it was much cheaper is smaller and less powerful, but actually works. The only feature it lacks is Windows Vista, no doubt is someone had had the good sense to install the opperating system from Hell it would be a useless but expeensive pile of junk too!
By Tim, at
March 7, 2010 4:08 PM
I love my mac!
Tim, i discovered your reading in th Woman in White - it was brilliant.
Did I say Mac's rock - apple macs that is.
I am looking forward to hearing and reading more of you
By ALICE, at
March 11, 2010 1:00 PM
Thank's Alice :) I can't change to a Mac, partly because I have this nice fairly new laptop, and also because I have lots of expensive reference books and biblical texts in PC format - that if I go to Linux I'll have to run those programs in an emulator is one of the things delaying this move ;)
The Woman in White was an interesting project, sometime I want to listen to the whole thing and see how it works with different literal voices doing the different narrative voices, and also to find out the whole story (at present I only know Walter's version)!
By Tim, at
March 11, 2010 1:31 PM
My name is . . . in China. I am asked to write an essay for my M Div on the subject of "what is Isaiah's Contribution . . .?" I surf the web and read Isaiah 1:2-20 Bibliography you wrote and with your expertise in that field, would you give me some insight relating to the my subject or introduce any books or articles that might be of help? I can't excess the needed resources for my essay because of the nature of the country I live and serve in.My only quibble, posted as a comment to his blog also is to add a qualification to the headline: "not behind (inaccessible) pay to view barriers". Many of the resources needed for an MDiv student are online already on the sites of the great and wonderful academic content aggregators (like EBSCO and ATLA).
But the cost is too high for this person's institution, and is too high for most individials. There is an increasing global digital divide is between those with institutional subscriptions and those without (whether because they have no entry to an institution, or because their institution is not wealthy enough).
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¶ 12:06 PM
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A lot of these sites already have tiered pay levels. For instance, many majority world institutions can access JSTOR for free.
By Charles Halton, at
March 4, 2010 2:00 PM
They do indeed :) and that's a trend to applaud. Though a somewhat crude approach to a nuanced problem. My impression is that many institutions and individuals who have less resources do not (as a matter of fact and ignoring the reasons, which may simply include ignorance of such possibilities) have access to allow a Western style of scholarship "sitting on the shoulders of giants" to flourish.
By Tim, at
March 5, 2010 6:35 AM
Also very often readers in third world countries, even if they had the money to pay for these resources, would not be able to do so because they don't have internationally recognised credit cards - which may be unavailable, restricted to those with good regular salaries, or very expensive.
By Peter Kirk, at
March 5, 2010 6:46 AM
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¶ 2:18 PM
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Thanks to Anuma for one of the best carnivals I can remember for a long time, entertaining and full of posts I want to read (but missed because my blogroll is too short, or because time is even though the blog is there so I did not see the great post anyway ;)
* This is not intended to disparage the fine work of recent collectors of Carnivals, having done it once I know how much work it is and how easily the human (or at least my) brain is by such quantities of data. Most carnivals have been good, many have directed me to posts I discover I would have missed, but this one even better, or worse, because I'll not have time to read all the interesting sounding posts before next carnival :(
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So if you are interested in Amos, or in the ways in which Hebrew Bible texts stick together do please read:
Bulkeley, Tim. “Amos 7,1-8,3: cohesion and generic dissonance.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 121 (2009): 515-528.
It is currently available for a fee on the de Gruyter's website (apparently my wisdom is not priceless, but 14 pages is worth US$40 or about 3 words for every cent you pay), or perhaps a library near you has a copy, or if you promise to cite me in your own work I'll send you a copy, so enjoy ;)
Cet article étudie les éléments linguistiques d'Amos 7,1–8,3 qui produisent un sens de cohésion textuelle. Il note la façon dont ces éléments fonctionnent ensemble avec des techniques rhétoriques, de façon à suggérer un message cohérent. Dans cette section du livre d'Amos, la répétition lexicale constitue une importante structure de cohésion. Cet effet encourage une lecture des récits de vision prophétiques, les trois racontés avant la narration biographique en Amos 7,10–17 aussi bien que celui qui la suit. On constate ainsi des différences notables entre les sections de cette péricope, telle que nous l'avons reçue. Ces différences comprennent le genre et le point de vue (les récits de vision sont racontés à la première personne, mais la narration biographique à la troisième). En dépit de ce décalage formel, les sections fonctionnent bien ensemble. Elles suggèrent qu'Amos était un vrai prophète, et que son message de catastrophe pour le royaume d'Israël était en fait une parole du Seigneur.
Der Beitrag untersucht die Sprachelemente in Am 7,1–8,3, die für den Zusammenhalt des Textes verantwortlich sind, und beleuchtet ihr Zusammenwirken mit den rhetorischen Mitteln für die Herstellung von Kohärenz. Dabei wird der Verwendung gleicher Begriffe etwa für die Verknüpfung der Visionsschilderungen mit der biographischen Erzählung in Am 7,10–17 große Bedeutung zugemessen. Trotz der immer wieder angeführten Unterschiede in Gattung, Intention und »Ich«- bzw. »Er«-Bericht gehen sie auf eine Hand zurück. Zusammen formulieren sie den Anspruch, dass Amos ein wahrer Prophet ist und dass seine Unheilsbotschaft für das Königreich Israel Wort Gottes ist.
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I love reading stories aloud, and our kids are a bit beyond that now (just a bit, all being thoroughly adult), so I enjoy Librivox as a hobby. As well as the William book Barbara and I are (slowly) reading together: More William by Richmal Crompton I have started a version of the Just So Stories. LV already has more than one, but since I had made my readings of the book available online before LV started I felt it was not unfair to do a LV version now.If you'd like to see what it sounds like the first story: How the Whale Got His Throat is available in draft form (please report any problems or errors).
Appeal for help: there is a thirteenth Just So Story, added to the US edition in 1903 (which was absent from the 1902 UK edition, and most subsequent editions) called "The Tabu Tale" if anyone can source a copy (published before 1926) that I can use I coulld read all thirteen. (There is also a fourteenth but it is in copyright and does not have the wordplays that make the "real" ones fun.
PS: The heading is a quote, it is how the 'Stute fish describes humans, I think the fish was spot on, we are (usuallly) nice, but (often) nubbly!
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