The Most Obscure in the Old Testament

Amos is the perfect pocket prophet. The model for all those after him. A superscription introduces the prophet and locates him in a specific historical context. He rarely anchors his oracles to a definite time period, nor to specific events. Quite often we can't tell when he means Israel the Northern Kingdom, or Israel the entire Hebrew nation. His contemporary Hosea is anything but. Here's book has been called The Most Obscure in the Old Testament.