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Micah: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the twelve Minor Prophets, Micah unwaveringly spoke God’s message to Israel—a message filled with judgment but also laced with the promise of redemption. Micah combined poetic complexity and literary sophistication to compel his audience to respond. And now, through an exacting linguistic and literary analysis of the biblical text, co-authors Francis I. Andersen and David Noel Freedman...

olden days. In discussing the “primal rule” in 4:8 we considered whether this went back to the origins of David’s dynasty or to the beginnings of time. The same possibilities exist here. A lot depends on settling the meaning of môṣāʾôt. But in any case the person spoken of here has some connection with the remote past. “One whose origin is from of old, from ancient times” (NJPS). A legitimate sensus plenior is that this Ruler will be a superhuman being, associated with God from the beginning
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