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Prof. J.H. Coetzee

The last 100 years have seen biblical studies practically dominated by diachronic/historical methodologies, Amos studies have a long tradition of being read within a diachronic framework. The result of this has been an unfortunate fragmentation of the text. Within the last 40 years or so there has been a resurgence of literary studies that treat the text wholistically. Nevertheless, in research that has been done in literary studies a divergence with regard to the structure of the book as well as the function and meaning of some of its units still exists. For this reason it is necessary to approach the problem from a fresh perspective. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the literary unity of Amos 3-6. In my work I show not only the legitimacy, but also the superiority of a synchronic reading of Amos 3-6 when reading the text as a whole. The book of Amos enjoys perhaps the most scholarly interest among all of the twelve prophets, which has resulted in a large body of secondary literature. Within the book of Amos, chapters 3-6 provide a closed unit which contains the major message of the book. For this reason, these four chapters afford a suitable text to apply my reading as well as a platform on which to dialogue with secondary sources. The methodology used in this thesis is a close reading of the present form of the Masoretic Text. A major part of the work is structural analysis. Through the analysis I was able to identify meaningful units that I used for my reading of the text. In this reading I looked at keywords and semantic fields, themes, repetition, parallelism, imagery, speakers and addressees, rhetorical techniques and the overall flow of the text. In my study I have shown how Amos 3-6 should be divided into three independent yet closely related units: Amos 3:1-15; 4:1-13 and 5:1-6:14. Recognition of the structure and craftsmanship of the text draws out the singular message of Amos 3-6; that Israel could no longer avoid Yahweh’s judgment for their oppression of the poor. Even if my main conclusion is similar both to scholars who work in diachronic as well as synchronic studies, my conclusion treats the entirety of Amos 3-6 and concludes that all units within it are vital to the whole and contribute to this message of judgment. My thesis offers a solution to the fragmentary text resultant from diachronic methods as well as a corrective to synchronic readings that inadequately structure the book, resulting in an unsatisfactory overall picture of the structure and meaning of Amos 3-6.

This study was made to determine the contributions of John Amos Comenius to the field of education and to analyze specifically his work in this field which would indicate that his philosophy contained concepts for industrial arts which are applicable today.

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John Amos Comenius, the seventeenth century realist, and Francis Wayland Parker, the nineteenth century pragmatic idealist, presented new educational theories and practices. Both men, products of their own times, through their wide learning, great imagination and sympathy with the intellectual and social climate of their day, offered to the world a new outlook on education -- an education focused on the needs and the interests of children. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1967. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Education.

La pensée politique et sociale de l'écrivain et essayiste israélien Amos Oz (1939-) repose sur sa représentation des conflits inhérents à la psyché humaine; l'angoisse issue des questions en suspens porte l'individu à rechercher l'apaisement mental en adhérant à des idéologies et à des référents identitaires qui offrent un univers de cohérence où tout est ordonné et résolu. Sans toutefois nier l'importance du désir d'appartenance, l'auteur dénonce ses dérives: la glorification de la violence faite en son nom et l'intransigeance du fanatisme, notamment face à la question de l'autre. Ainsi, Oz cherche à sonder l'inconscient collectif israélien, à dégager la part fantasmée des mythes sionistes et à montrer comment ils ont eu de réelles conséquences sur l'identité nationale de son pays, sur le cours de son histoire et sur la relation israélienne à l'altérité palestinienne. Cet examen le porte à soutenir que la seule légitimité du projet sioniste est son aspiration à permettre au peuple juif de normaliser sa situation par la création d'un foyer national, ce que la prise des Territoires a rendu impossible. Oz pose ainsi l'ultime question: comment trouver une réponse satisfaisante au sionisme sans pour autant nier la réalité d'Israël? Sa réponse: la trahison. Le combat citoyen d'Oz est d'abord et avant tout un combat contre des attitudes individuelles. À l'attitude du fanatique à vouloir faire coïncider le réel au fantasme et à vouloir forcer autrui au changement pour parfaire le monde, Oz oppose le traître capable d'ambivalence morale et de pragmatisme. Le traître comprend que différentes avenues légitimes peuvent coexister face à un même problème: le conflit israélo-palestinien étant pour l'auteur une « tragédie », soit le choc de deux projets contradictoires également légitimes, il ne sera résolu durablement que par un compromis pragmatique entre ces deux projets plutôt que par une justice absolue pour chacun des camps. Ce compromis, c'est notamment par la reconnaissance -non pas par la compréhension mutuelle ou par l'amour fraternel-de l'autre pour ce qu'il est plutôt que pour ce qu'il représente et par la reconnaissance sans équivoque de son droit égal de vivre en paix dans son État qu'il sera possible. Si une majorité de l'opinion publique israélienne et palestinienne est aujourd'hui résignée à la nécessité de la paix à deux États, le combat d'Oz est aussi de faire prendre conscience comment, en devant renoncer aux rêves démesurés afin d'être en mesure de reconnaître l'attachement tout aussi véritable de l'autre à la terre, la douleur est une étape à franchir pour atteindre la paix. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Amos Oz, Sionisme, Identité israélienne, Trahison, Fanatisme, Conflit israélo-palestinien.

Thesis (M.L.S.)--University of Toledo, 2009. / Typescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Liberal Studies." "A thesis titled"--at head of title. Bibliography: leaves 92-99.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

The book of Amos preserves powerful critiques of injustices in ancient Israel, and accordingly it has become famous as a resource for social justice movements across the centuries. The text has also been a testing ground for the history of prophets and prophetic literature. Given these emphases on socio-economic justice and historical dimensions of human culture, there has been a glaring neglect of “nature" themes in Amos and how these references to the non-human, created universe function in shaping the moral character of the readers. Without ecological features, the ethical message is hollow, since the character of humans and even of Yahweh as God are often evaluated and illustrated by realities in the rest of the natural world. Amos reciprocally connects the natural world (cosmos) and the moral world (ethos) together, implying that the condition and conceptions of the cosmos are partly reflective of human character and partly formative for human character in turn. The second aspect deserves attention at last. There is an ethos of the cosmos in Amos. Nature is not neutral. To describe this cosmos and ethos, the study proceeds in two steps for each major section of the translated Hebrew text. First, after establishing a historical setting for the final form of the text, there is a careful analysis of the "creation rhetoric." followed by a second step that doubles back to ask how such nature imagery encourages or discourages moral “character formation” for an audience in Judah. The rhetorical analysis uses insights into genre and speech act theory, while the ethical analysis uses character ethics to discuss practices, dispositions, and desires for visions of good and evil in Amos. In the end, the cosmos in Amos is more than ancient cosmology or dispensable background scenery. Built into the cosmos are dynamics that link justice with matters of life and death, and only through the nature imagery does the audience most vividly gain reverence for each other, their world, and their God. From earthquakes to new growth, creation shapes character. Creation rhetoric and character formation are mutually related and profitably compared for Old Testament ethics. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)