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Article: Amos in Song and Book Culture.(Book review)
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Amos in Song and Book Culture, by Joyce Rilett Wood. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, vol. 337. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. 256 pp. $80.00.
This monograph, based on the author's 1993 Toronto School of Theology dissertation, presents a new interpretation of the book of Amos. Distinguishing two editions of the book, Wood regards each as "a complete literary composition by a different author" (p. 11). The first is a cycle of seven poems featuring a coherent narrative sequence composed by Amos himself, while the second relates to the first as commentary to a text.
In the Introduction, Wood claims that while the book's ...