Amos
Pages
312
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
10/24/2017
ISBN-13
9780300178784
As part of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Amos has been studied for more than two thousand years. This much-needed new edition includes an updated English translation of the Hebrew text and an insightful commentary. While previous scholarship speculated on reconstructions of the life of Amos, Eidevall analyzes this prophetic book as a literary composition, rejecting the conventional view of the book of Amos’s origin and providing a new rationalization for the form and meaning of the text.
Reviews
AndrewKlein46
October 11, 2022
October 11, 2022
Eidevall's goal of leaving behind the person of Amos in order to focus on the book of Amos is admirable; however, his insistence on redaction criticism makes it so that the canonical book of Amos is hardly ever in focus. His focus on his proposed layers of redaction seem to be more important to him than actual exegesis of the current text. There is sound commentary to be found in here, it is just hidden within his overwhelming criticism.