Micah’s name at the beginning and ending of his work (1:1–4; 7:18) sustains the wonder. In the book Micah loses no time in presenting the incomparable God in his awesome transcendence. This God emerges from the throne room of the universe to make a steep, breathtaking, descent to the heights of planet Earth, where the massive mountains dissolve underneath his feet like wax before a burning fire, like water gushing down a slope (1:3–4). For Western thinkers God’s transcendence is often described with