The Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah

Remnant, Restoration, and Promise

Kenneth H. Cuffey

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9780567686985
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567359377
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

The Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah puts forth a framework to understand the nature of literary coherence. This enables an analysis of the sources and dimensions of the coherence found in the book of Micah by the primary scholarly proposals for understanding the structure and connectedness of the whole book. Each of these proposals ultimately fails to account for all the features found in the text.

The author then explains a new reading of the final form of the text of Micah, based on the placement of the references concerning the remnant. A brief exposition of the text as a canonical whole indicates the flow and development in the final form of the book. The framework formulated earlier provides a basis to evaluate the coherence that this understanding of the book of Micah uncovers and to show that this means of reading the canonical book best accounts for the greatest number of features in the text.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• Acknowlegments
• Abbreviations
• List of Tables
• INTRODUCTION—THE QUESTION: LITERARY COHERENCE IN THE BOOK OF MICAH
• Chapter 1 -- HERMENEUTICAL PERSPECTIVE
• 1. The Nineteenth Century: Disconnecting the Component Portions
• 2. The Heart of the Twentieth Century: Building and Transitioning (1900–1965)
• 3. 1966 to the Present (2013)
• Excursus: A Brief Bibliography of Bibliographies and Surveys of Research on Micah
• Chapter 2 -- STUDIES OF THE COHERENCE OF THE BOOK OF MICAH
• 1. John Willis
• 2. David Hagstrom
• 3. Kenneth Cuffey
• 4. Lamontte Luker
• 5. Charles Shaw
• 6. Mignon Jacobs
• 7. Synthesis
• Chapter 3 -- COHERENCE IN WORKS OF LITERATURE
• 1. The Problem
• 2. Coherence in the Context of a Communication Model
• 3. The Textual Dimension of Coherence: Internal Coherence
• 4. The Historical Dimension of Coherence: External Coherence
• 5. The Perceptual Dimension of Coherence: The Reader’s Coherence
• 6. Studies of Coherence in the Varied Genres of the Hebrew Bible
• 7. The Nature of Coherence
• 8. Combinations of Types of Coherence
• 9. Summary
• Chapter 4 -- AN EVALUATION OF THE COHERENCE FOUNDIN THE BOOK OF MICAH
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Categorizing the Sources of the Textual CoherenceSeen in the Book of Micah
• 3. Reflections on the Dimensions of Historical and Perceptual Coherence Seen in the Book of Micah
• 4. Evaluation of Studies Speci􀂿cally on the Coherence of Micah
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter 5 -- THE COHERENCE OF MICAH: A NEW PROPOSAL BASED ON THE REMNANT PASSAGES
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Essential Elements of the Proposal
• 3. A Brief Exposition of the Book of Micah
• Chapter 6 -- AN EVALUATION OF THE NEW PROPOSAL FOR THE COHERENCE OF THE BOOK OF MICAH
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Textual Dimension of Coherence: Internal Coherence
• 3. The Historical Dimension of Coherence: External Coherence
• 4. The Perceptual Dimension of Coherence: The Reader’s Coherence
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter 7 -- COHERENCE, THE GROWTH OF THE BOOK OF MICAH, AND PROMISE FOR THE REMNANT: SOME SUGGESTIONS
• 1. Implications for Biblical Studies
• 2. Implications for Understanding Literary Coherence
• 3. Directions for Future Research
• 4. Summary
• Bibliography
• Index of References
• Index of Authors