The literary coherence of the book of Micah
Subtitle: remnant, restoration, and promise
By: Kenneth H. Cuffey
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 611; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 611.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780567001641; 9780567359377
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Textkohärenz; Micha; Textstruktur
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction--The question: literary coherence in the Book of Micah -- -- Chapter 1.; title: Hermeneutical perspective -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Studies of the coherence of the Book of Micah -- -- Chapter 3.; title: Coherence in the works of literature -- -- Chapter 4.; title: An evaluation of the coherence found in the Book of Micah -- -- Chapter 5.; title: The coherence of Micah: A new proposal based on the remnant passages -- -- Chapter 6.; title: An evaluation of the new proposal for the coherence of the Book of Micah -- -- Chapter 7.; title: Coherence, the growth of the Book of Micah, and promise for the remnant: some suggestions.