Micah A Commentary: The Old Testament Library

includes index and biblioraphy

Contexts of Micah and for reading micah .....2 International Context : Policies of Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia ................3 Eighth-Century regional Contexts: Biblical History from the lowlands.................8 Hezekiah`s Revolt against assyria : God`s Protection, or Trapped like a bird in a Cage..12 Excursus1: LMLK Jar stamps, pillar figurines, and military preparations in the shephelah.......14 Moresheth as frontier Town : Local issues and economy...15 Plows ands swords : An economics of Eighth- century rural palestine ...............18 Antimilitary populism as the ideological Context for reading micah .........20 Micah`s revolt and the politics of Jeremiah ..........26 MIcah versus Isaiah? .............28 Is the book of Micah a Revolutionary Text?...............30 Literary observations on the book of micah .31 Versions of the text ....31 Organization of the book ......32 Micah as drama?.......................37 Commentary Excursus 2: Micaiah ben imlah............46 Excursus 3: Feminist analysis of Micah 1: 6 and beyond ........57 Excursus 4 : The judgments against samaria and jerusalem ...........125 Excursus 5: The peace passage : Reading Micah 4: 1-5 in Contexts...............139 Excursus 6: The lame in the Greek version .............147 Excursus 7: Being watched in Micah and biblical literature ..157 Excursus 8: A lion among the beasts..............179