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.
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION: THE QUESTION: LITERARY COHERENCE IN THE BOOK OF MICAHCHAPTER 1: HISTORY OF RESEARCH ON THE BOOK OF MICAH: GROWTH, FINAL FORM, AND COHERENCECHAPTER 2: STUDIES OF THE COHERENCE OF THE BOOK OF MICAHCHAPTER 3: COHERENCE IN WORKS OF LITERATURECHAPTER 4: AN EVALUATION OF THE COHERENCE FOUND IN THE BOOK OF MICAHCHAPTER 5: THE COHERENCE OF MICAH: A NEW PROPOSAL BASED ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE REMNANTCHAPTER 6: AN EVALUATION OF THE NEW PROPOSAL FOR THE COHERENCE OF THE BOOK OF MICAHCHAPTER 7: THE COHERENCE OF THE BOOK OF MICAH: CONCLUSIONS, SUGGESTIONS, AND DIRECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
Cuffey’s study is exemplary in its thoroughness. He has consulted a wealth of previous literature … A mature example of a holistic literary study.
