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Amos 5:21-22 — a Tightly Wrapped PackageAcademic Article • November 16th, 2022
There is general agreement that Amos 5:21-22 constitutes a single strophe.1 There is less agreement about whether תולע יל־ולעת־םא יכ, “even though you offer me burnt-offerings” (5:22aα), was originally a part of this strophe. In his article in the Festschrift for Jacob Milgrom, Meir Weiss set forth a careful structural and rhetorical argument for retaining the phrase,2 and his article has been cited as support for the phrase’s retention.3 I would argue, however, that if 5:22aα is omitted, the structure that emerges is a much tighter one, and one that reinforces the content of these verses.
