Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah

The Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah puts forth a framework to understand the nature of literary coherence. This enables an analysis of the sources and dimensions of the coherence found in the book of Micah by the primary scholarly proposals for understanding the structure and connectedness of the whole book. Each of these proposals ultimately fails to account for all the features found in the text. The author then explains a new reading of the final form of the text of Micah, based on the placement of the references concerning the remnant. A brief exposition of the text as a canonical whole indicates the flow and development in the final form of the book. The framework formulated earlier provides a basis to evaluate the coherence that this understanding of the book of Micah uncovers and to show that this means of reading the canonical book best accounts for the greatest number of features in the text.

"The volume's extensive analyses of previous scholarship on its topic, as well as its technically argued new proposal, will be useful to advanced students and scholars working specifically on Micah and more broadly on questions of literary coherence in biblical books." - Religious Studies Review "This volume will enrich future studies of Micah and of biblical prophetic literature, and gives further proof of the methodological legitimacy and primacy of an approach that 'begins with the text in its final form and tries to [explain] what the text means, as it now is'. In doing so it will almost certainly accelerate the discipline's move away from historical-critical approaches and toward literary and ultimately canonical ones." -Themelios

Kenneth H. Cuffey, Ph.D., Professor of Biblical Studies and President, Urbana Theological Seminary, Champaign-Urbana, IL.