Still Selling the Righteous

This redaction-critical study interprets the reasons for judgment in Amos 2.6-16 in the literary context of each of the redactional compositions which it is argued underlie the Amos-text. It is proposed that the Amos-text is both a theological work and a tractate of social criticism. In earlier redactional compositions the dominant reasons for judgment concern mistreatment of the weak. In the later redactional compositions these are overshadowed in terms of length of text by more theological reasons for judgment; however these strengthen rather than weaken the force of the older reasons for judgment.