Micah /

This volume brings gender studies to bear on Micah's powerful rhetoric, interpreting the book within its ancient and modern contexts. Julia M. O'Brien traces resonances of Micah's language within the Persian Period community in which the book was composed, evaluating recent study of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: O'Brien, Julia M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible. > Micah.
Bible. > Micah > Commentaries.
Commentaries.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: "Tell it on the mountain"--or, "And you shall tell your daughter [as well]" / Athalya Brenner-Idan
  • Editor's introduction to Wisdom commentary: "She is a breath of the power of God" (Wis 7:25) / Barbara E. Reid
  • Author's introduction: Putting Micah in context. Micah's date / Matthew Coomber
  • Micah 1-3: Judgments against female cities and male leaders. Women and land seizure in Micah / Matthew Coomber
  • God, the "breaker" of injustice in Zimbabwe / Beauty Maenzanise
  • Micah's intertext: Nehemiah and power / Tracey Cox
  • Micah 4-5: Exaltation of daughter Jerusalem and her king. The universality of Micah 4 and modern Jerusalem / Deborah Weissman
  • Daughter Zion the thresher / Jennifer J. Williams
  • Excursus: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 2122
  • Excursus: Early Christian interpretation of Micah 4-5 / Julia M. O'Brien
  • Reading Micah 5 in modern Bethlehem / Viola Raheb
  • Micah 6-7: YHWH's lawsuit and daughter Jerusalem's response. Excursus: Miriam matters / Julia M. O'Brien
  • Miriam and women's leadership / Deborah Weissman
  • "Miriam the speechwriter / Janet Ruth Falon
  • "We all stood together" / Merle Feld
  • Justice and power / Matthew Coomber
  • Justice and structural change / Kharma Amos
  • Justice in biblical perspective / Karen Labacqz
  • Institute for Women's Policy Research fact sheet, April 2014
  • Exursus: The irony of walls / Julia M. O'Brien
  • Excursus: Shepherd imagery in the Bible / Julia M. O'Brien
  • Conclusion: A feminist response to Micah's theology.

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