Books in the SOCIETY FOR OLD TESTAMENT STUD series

A study into the effects of the Babylonian exile on Irsaelite and Judahite identity, using migration research, trauma studies, and postcolonial theory. This volume presents social-scientific concepts to differentiate the experiences of deportees taken to urban Babylon, rural Babylonia, and the impact this displacement had on those left in Judah.

"This book brings the prophetic poetry of the book of Amos into conversation with recent studies of poetry in other disciplines. By distinguishing between the poetic addressee within the text and the actual audience outside the text, the book explores the way poetic discourse is triangulated among multiple audiences"--