A Transverse Dreamer

Essays on the Book of Micah
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-221529-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 552, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 257 g

Reihe: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

The final text of the Book of Micah provokes a series of questions:
- Can the Book be read as a coherent composition or is it the result of a complex redaction history?
- Was Micah a prophet of doom whose literary heritage was later softened by the inclusion of oracles of salvation?
The essays in this book center around these questions. Some of them are of a more general character, while others analyze specific passages. Some articles discuss the Book of Micah by looking at specific themes (prophecy; religious polemics; metaphors). The others are concerned with the proclamation of a peaceful future (Micah 4:1-5); the famous moral incentive in Micah 6:8 and the question of prophetic and divine gender in Micah 7:8-13. They have two features in common:
- A thorough reading of the Hebrew text informed by grammar and syntax.
- A comparative approach: the Book of Micah is seen as part of the ancient Near Eastern culture.
All in all, the author defends the view that the Book of Micah contains three independent literary elements: Micah 1: a prophecy of doom; Micah 2-5 a two-sided futurology, and 6-8 a later appropriation of Micah’s message.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, students, and institutions of Biblical studies, Jewish

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becking, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums

Über Autor(innen)

Bob Becking, Universität Utrecht, Niederlande.

Bob Becking, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.