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The relationship between literature and history has always lain at the centre of
biblical exegesis. In recent years some literary critics have ignored history or
relegated its importance in biblical studies, seeing the Bible as a contemporary
text to be addressed by self-consciously modern authors. John Hayes is not such
a scholar; on the contrary, he has distinguished himself by his work on Israelite
and Judaean history. But he has also shown a keen interest in the prophets, in
which the literary and historical issues – we can say, of the relationship between
the author and the book – have been to the fore. In this tribute to John Hayes I
want, therefore, to make some observations about the prophet as author and as
a literary character: as creator and as creature. I shall take Amos as my example, and Hayes’s infl uential 1988 commentary on Amos as a starting point. My
thoughts are unlikely to provoke his agreement, but a man with such a fi ne sense
of humour will surely derive some amusement from my impudence.