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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...

The book of Micah is one of the twelve books of prophecy that are reckoned as the fourth scroll of the Latter Prophets in the Jewish tradition. In his praise of the “men of ḥesed” (Sir 44:1), Jesus ben Sira, writing in the first part of the second century B.C.E., began (44:16) and ended (49:14) with Enoch (Lee 1986; Mack 1985). Adam is mentioned last of all, even though he was “superior to every living thing in the creation.” Ben Sira extolled the most
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