Well, there is this blog, but what I really mean is this:
Ashgate Publishing in Aldershot, England, has an ad for Dr. Jim’s upcoming tome on the biblical Book of Amos called:
Amos and the Cosmic Imagination
Here is the blurb:
Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by James Linville in light of new and sometimes controversial historical approaches to the Bible. Amos is read as the literary product of the Persian-era community in Judah. Its representations of divine-human communication are investigated in the context of the ancient writers’ own role as transmitters and shapers of religious traditions. Amos’s extraordinary poetry expresses mythical conceptions of divine manifestation and a process of destruction and recreation of the cosmos which reveals that behind the appearances of the natural world is a heavenly, cosmic temple.
About the Author/Editor
Dr James R. Linville is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada. Further Information
ISBN: 0 7546 5481 8
Publication Date: 04/2008
Library of Congress Reference: 2007025875
ISBN-13 978-0-7546-5481-0
Ashgate does a GREAT job making books. GREAT binding. You will want to order many, many copies of this volume in particular.
I finished the page proofs a few weeks ago and the volume is off to the printers. I should have it in hard-copy in a month or so. YIPPEE!
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