<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>Yes. </div><div><br></div><div>I’m not really getting what you’re referring to. There’s no information there about Amos's character. Is that your point, that he’s not explicitly portrayed as exceptional?</div><div><br></div><div>See the Radak’s first comment on that verse, might be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><br></div><div>Do you get the sense for amos?</div><div><br></div><div>????????? ??????? ????????????? ???????????? ??????????? ??????? ?????? ??????????????? ?????????? ?????????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????????? ????????????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????? ???????? ??????????</div><div>The words of Amos, a sheepbreeder from Tekoa, who prophesied concerning Israel in the reigns of Kings Uzziah of Judah and Jeroboam son of Joash of Israel, two years before the earthquake.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div>Are you referring to temporary prophets such as Lavan?</div><div>My own sense from Tanach is that Rambam?s claim is not inconsistent with Tanach, with a few ?horaah shaah? exceptions.</div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px; border:none; padding:0px;"><div><br></div></blockquote></blockquote></body></html>