The Literary Coherence of the Book of Micah: Remnant, Restoration, and Promise

Description

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.

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

Cuffey's study is exemplary in its thoroughness. He has consulted a wealth of previous literature ... A mature example of a holistic literary study. * The Journal of Theological Studies * It is commendable that the author tackles the question of coherence, as it is only through examining the flaws in consistency that the literature can truly be assessed. * Zeitschrift fur alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (Bloomsbury translation) *