Micah

Burkard M. Zapff, Linda M. Maloney, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr, Adele Berlin, Erhard Blum, Irmtraud Fischer, Shimon Gesundheit, Walter Groß, Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard M. Levinson, Ed Noort, Helmut Utzschneider, Beate Ego, Linda M. Maloney, Walter Dietrich, David M. Carr, Adele Berlin, Erhard Blum, Irmtraud Fischer, Shimon Gesundheit, Walter Groß, Gary N. Knoppers, Bernard M. Levinson, Ed Noort, Helmut Utzschneider, Beate Ego

• Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783170254442
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Commentary

Major parts of the book of Micah were probably composed in the context of a book containing a number of prophetic writings - even as many as twelve. They can therefore only be understood and interpreted adequately within that context. That process of interpretation sheds light on an essential segment of the history of Old Testament theology: it was not primarily a matter of the statements of lone individual prophetic figures but of a common testimony to YHWH's speaking and acting in the history of his people. Zapff shows this by reflecting diachronically on the results of his synchronic exegesis and so tracing the process by which the Micah document and its theological statement were formed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Imprint
• Editors’ Foreword
• Author’s Foreword
• Introduction to the Commentary
• Micah 1:1–7: Comes for Judgment
• Micah 1:8–9: The Prophet’s Mourning
• Micah 1:10–16: Disaster for the Cities of the Hill Country and Call for Lament
• Micah 2:1–5: Upper-Class Intrigues and their Consequences
• Micah 2:6–11: Prophetic Resistance to Micah
• Micah 2:12–13: Future Salvation
• Micah 3:1–4: Like Cannibals—the Machinations of the Upper Class
• Micah 3:5–8: The False Prophets and the True Prophet of
• Micah 3:9–12: Corruption in Zion and its Consequences
• Micah 4:1–5: Zion’s Ultimate Destiny
• Micah 4:6–8: The Gathering of those Scattered and the Kingdom of and Zion
• Micah 4:9–14: The Troubles of the Present and the Future
• Micah 5:1–5: A Future Ruler in Israel
• Micah 5:6–8: The Remnant of Jacob among the Nations and the Destruction of Israel’s Enemies
• Micah 5:9–13: The Cleansing of Israel from Everything Hostile to
• Micah 5:14: ’s Judgment on the Disobedient Nations
• Micah 6:1–8: ’s Expectations of His People
• Micah 6:9–16: The Actual Behavior of Jerusalem and Its Inhabitants
• Micah 7:1–7: The Prophet’s Lament and His Confidence
• Micah 7:8–20: Zion’s Assurance and its Renewal
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plan of volumes