Micah

EHUD BEN ZVI

The Forms of the Old Testament Literature
VOLUME XXIB
Rolf P. Knierim, Gene M. Tucker, and Marvin A. Sweeney, editors

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

© 2000 Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN 0-8028-4599-1

Contents

Abbreviations and Symbols

Editors’ Foreword

Author’s Preface

MICAH

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Book of Micah, a Particular Instance of YHWH’s Word

Chapter 2 The Individual Units

Glossary

Abbreviations and Symbols

I. MISCELLANEOUS ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

b. Babylonian Talmud

bce before the Common Era

ca. circa (about)

cf. compare

ch(s). chapter(s)

diss. dissertation

ed. editor(s), edited by; edition

e.g. for example

Eng. English

esp. especially

et al. et alii (and others)

fem. feminine

FS Festschrift

HB Hebrew Bible

Heb. Hebrew

Intro. Introduction

K Ketib

lit. literally

LXX Septuagint

m. Mishnah

Mak. Makkot (talmudic tractate)

masc. masculine

MT Masoretic Text

Mur Murabba‘at text

n. note

OT Old Testament

Pesh. Peshitta

pl. plural

Q Qere

repr. reprint(ed)

rev. ed. revised edition

sg. singular

Sukk. Sukkot (talmudic tractate)

Tg. Targum

tr. translator(s), translated by

v(v). verse(s)

vol. volume

Vg. Vulgate

→ cross reference to another section of the commentary

// parallel

§(§) section(s)

II. PUBLICATIONS

AB Anchor Bible

ABL R. F. Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Letters, 14 vols. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press; New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1892–1914)

ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, ed. J. B. Pritchard (3rd ed.; Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969)

ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch

ATR Anglican Theological Review

ATSAT Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament

Aug Augustinianum

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

BGBE Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese

BHS Biblia hebraica stuttgartensia

Bib Biblica

BibInt Biblical Interpretation

BibOr Biblica et orientalia

BN Biblische Notizen

BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

CahRB Cahiers de la Revue biblique

CANE Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed. Jack M. Sasson et al. (New York: Scribner, 1995)

CAT Commentaire de l’Ancien Testament

CBET Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

DBHE Luis Alonso Schökel, Diccionario Bíblico Hebrew-Español (Madrid: Trotta, 1994)

DCH Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, ed. D. J. A. Clines (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993–)

ErIsr Eretz Israel

ETL Ephemerides theologicae lovanienses

FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature

HAL Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, ed. W. Baumgartner et al. (tr. and ed. M. E. J. Richardson; Leiden: Brill, 1994–)

HAR Hebrew Annual Review

HeyJ Heythrop Journal

HSM Harvard ...