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In this commentary on the book of Amos, Daniel Carroll combines a detailed reading of the Hebrew text with attention to its historical background and current relevance. What makes this volume unique is its special attention to Amos’s literary features and what they reveal about the book’s theology and composition. Instead of reconstructing a hypothetical redactional history, this commentary...

Significantly, such a political and financial state of affairs would have been more difficult in Persian period Yehud.95 If Amos was relatively well-to-do, involved in commercial activity, and literate to some degree, might he be one of those who could read and write at that time or have the wherewithal to employ a scribe? Perhaps he was a member of a social stratum that scholars, irrespective of their conclusions about the breadth and degree of literacy in ancient Israel, admit might be literate
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