Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Micah: some preliminaries
  • The course of Micah studies
  • Micah as prophet of a new age
  • The form of the book of Micah
  • Jeremiah 26 and Micah
  • The text of Micah
  • Poetic form in Micah
  • 1:1 The heading
  • 1:2-7 The wrath to come on Samaria
  • 1:8-9 Lament as the disaster spreads
  • 1:10-16 Lament over the towns of Judah
  • 2:1-5 Against those who steal land
  • 2:6-11 Enemies of the people
  • 2:12-13 The shepherd-king and his flock
  • 3:1-4 The courts as cannibals
  • 3:5-8 False prophets and a real prophet
  • 3:9-12 Zion shall be plowed as a field
  • 4:1-5 The kingdom to come
  • 4:6-7 The kingdom of the survivors
  • 4:8 Restoration of sovereignty as at first
  • 4:9-10
  • Human failure and divine help
  • 4:11-13 The defeat of the nation
  • 4:14 A fragment: humiliation of the king
  • 5:1-4a [2-5a] Return of the king of peace
  • 5:4b-5 [5b-6] Imperial dream
  • 5:6-8 [7-9] The irresistible survivors
  • 5:9-14 [10-15] The preparatory purging
  • 6:1-8 A covenant lawsuit: the whole duty of mankind
  • 6:9-16 A curse on the cheating city
  • 7:1-7 Injustice: its own punishment
  • 7:8-20 A closing liturgy of hope.