The Speeches of Micah

A Rhetorical-Historical Analysis

Charles S. Shaw

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Supplement Series 145

Copyright © 1993 Sheffield Academic Press

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Shaw, Charles S.

Speeches of Micah: Rhetorical-Historical Analysis.—(JSOT Supplement Series, ISSN 0309-0787; No. 145)

I. Title II. Series

221.7

ISBN 1-85075-362-8

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Approaches to the Book of Micah

Purposes and Assumptions of the Present Study

Method

History and Chronology

Chapter 1

Surely Her Illnesses Are Incurable’: Micah 1:2–16

Text and Translation

Unity and Date

The Rhetorical Situation

Goals and Strategy

Historical Possibilities

Chapter 2

My People Have Become an Enemy’: Micah 2:1–13

Text and Translation

Unity and Date

The Rhetorical Situation

Goals and Strategy

Historical Possibilities

Chapter 3

Is It Not for You to Acknowledge the Decision?’: Micah 3:1–4:8

Text and Translation

Unity and Date

The Rhetorical Situation

Goals and Strategy

Historical Possibilities

Chapter 4

There Will You Be Delivered?’: Micah 4:9–5:14

Text and Translation

Unity and Date

The Rhetorical Situation

Goals and Strategy

Historical Possibilities

Chapter 5

A Rod—and Who Has Appointed It Again?’: Micah 6:1–7:7

Text and Translation

Unity and Date

The Rhetorical Situation

Goals and Strategy

Historical Possibilities

Chapter 6

That Day the Decree Will Be Rescinded!’: Micah 7:8–20

Text and Translation

Unity and Date

The Rhetorical Situation

Goals and Strategy

Historical Possibilities

Summary and Conclusions

Bibliography

Index of Biblical References

Index of Authors

Abbreviations

AASOR Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research

AB Anchor Bible

ABC A.K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles

AJSL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures

AnBib Analecta biblica

ANET J.B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts

ARAB D.D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia

ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch

ATR Anglican Theological Review

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BDB F. Brown, S.R. Driver, and C.A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament

BHS Biblia hebraica stuttgartensia

Bib Biblica

BJPES Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society

BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

BK Bibel und Kirche

BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament

BO Bibliotheca orientalis

BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAW Beihefte zur ZAW

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

EBib Etudes bibliques

EncJud Encyclopaedia Judaica

ExpTim Expository Times

FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

FThL Forum Theologicae Linguisticae

FzB Forschung zur Bibel

HAR Hebrew Annual Review

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About The Speeches of Micah: A Rhetorical-Historical Analysis

In this important book, Shaw deploys a rigorous and systematic rhetorical analysis in the service of a reconstruction of the historical setting of each of the discourses in Micah. Unlike Muilenburg's "rhetorical criticism", this approach focuses on the persuasiveness of the discourses, the means by which the author achieves his goal. Among Shaw's tools is the concept of the rhetorical situation. It involves not only the question of the identity of the narratees, but also objective factors like events, conditions and attitudes to which the discourse responds and subjective factors like the speaker's own view of the situation. For each discourse the author analyses its goals and strategy, determining the structure of the speeches, the function of each part in the persuasiveness of the speech, the kinds of proof and the style utilized in order to achieve the author's goals.

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