The Book of Micah: Introduction and Commentary

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

WILLIAM MCKANE, The Book of Micah: Introduction and Commentary (Edinburgh: I & T. Clark, 1998). Pp. xiv + 242. N.R

William McKane has done for the Book of Micah what he did earlier for the "rolling scroll" of Jeremiah (A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah [2 vols.; ICC; Edinburgh: I & I Clark, 1986-96]). He explains the complexities and incongruities of Micah as evidence of a living tradition of transmission and interpretation emanating from the utterances of a historical personage in the eighth century B.C.F. M. restricts the words of Micah of Moresheth to chaps. 1-3. ...

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