Ebook: Studien zur Redaktion und Komposition des Amosbuchs

The focus of much recent scholarship has shifted from the redactional history of individual prophetic books to their final form as literary compositions, regardless of its pre-history. (A good example of the latter approach with respect to Amos is P. Bovati and R. Meynet, Le livre du prophète Amos [RB 2; Paris 1994]; reviewed in Bib 77 [1996] 114-117.) The present volume, a minor revision of the author’s January 1996 Ph.D. Dissertation for the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Philipps-Universität in Marburg, represents an attempt at a “middle way” of sorts. The author not only breaks the book down into a number of editorial layers but also reconstructs the history of how they were brought together to yield the book as we have it today.