Micah

469 Pages·2020·4.617 MB·English

by  J. C. De Moor

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HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
ON THE OLD TESTAMENT
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MICAH
HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
ON THE OLD TESTAMENT
Editorial team:
Cornelis Houtman
(Kampen, The Netherlands)
Gert T.M. Prinsloo
(Pretoria, South Africa)
Klaas Spronk
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Wilfred G.E. Watson
(Newcastle, UK)
Al Wolters
(Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada)
MICAH

by
Johannes C. de Moor
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ................................................... vii
Abbreviations ............................................ ix
Introduction ............................................. 1
§1 The Text of the Book of Micah ......................... 1
§2 Name of the Book and Place in the Canon ............... 2
§3 History and Future of Research in Micah ................ 3
§4 The Structure of the Book of Micah.................... 18
§5 The Style of the Book of Micah ........................ 20
§6 The Historical Order of the Compositional Units ....... 21
§7 The Socio-theological Criticism of Micah ............... 24
§8 Micah and Isaiah ...................................... 28
§9 The Reception of the Book of Micah in Antiquity ...... 29
§10 The Structure of This Commentary .................... 31
Commentary ............................................. 37
Micah 1:1 .................................................. 37
Micah 1:2-9 ................................................ 49
Micah 1:10-16 .............................................. 81
Micah 2:1-11 .............................................. 115
Micah 2:12-13 ............................................ 149
Micah 3:1-12 .............................................. 159
Micah 4:1-7 ............................................... 189
Micah 4:8–5:14 ........................................... 213
Micah 6:1-16 .............................................. 269
Micah 7:1-13 .............................................. 317
Micah 7:14-20 ............................................ 359
List of Illustrations .................................. 381
Bibliography ........................................... 383
Index of Scriptural References ..................... 443

PREFACE
The work on this commentary started back in 1957 when I was
still an undergraduate student of my revered Professors Nicolaas
Herman Ridderbos and Willem Hendrik Gispen (Free University,
Amsterdam). With countless interruptions because of other obliga-
tions the preparation of the manuscript had to be continued up till
now. I am deeply grateful to God who allowed me to complete this
volume despite several bouts of severe illness.
I am indebted to the librarians of the Protestant University
at Amsterdam and Groningen, the Free University at Amsterdam,
the University of Amsterdam (Rosenthaliana), Leiden University
(The Netherlands Institute for the Near East; Peshit.ta Institute),
the Theological University of the Reformed Churches at Kampen,
the National Library of Israel (Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew
Manuscripts)atJerusalem, theBritishLibraryatLondon, theBod-
leian Library at Oxford, the Biblioth`eque Nationale at Paris, the
Biblioteca Ambrosiana at Milan, the Biblioteca Apostolica at Vati-
can City, the Biblioteca Palatina at Parma, the Biblioteca Estense
at Modena. They all helped me generously in collecting the data I
needed.
I want to express my deep gratitude to all who have helped me
with this project in the course of so many years. Unfortunately it
is impossible to specify their precious contributions here. I must
confine myself to the enumeration of their names: Bob Becking,
Todd Bolen, Manfried Dietrich, Meindert Dijkstra, Craig Dunning,
Margaretha Folmer, Robert Gordon, Elisabeth Hernitscheck, Cees
Houtman, Dineke Houtman, Konrad Jenner, William Koopmans,
Marjo Korpel, Oswald Loretz, Pieter van der Lugt, Hennie Mars-
man, Tryggve Mettinger, Hans Renkema, Riemer Roukema, Paul
Sanders, Klaas Spronk, Wilfred Watson, Nicolas Wyatt.
TheEditorsoftheHistorical Commentary on the Old Testament
are thanked for their patience, their suggestions for improvement
and finally for their decision to accept this volume for publication.
I dedicate this book to my wife Janny whose undaunted support
created room for it.
Johannes de Moor

abbreviations
Theuseofabbreviationshasbeenlimitedinthiscommentary. Those
remaining are according to: Redaktion der RGG4, Abku¨rzungen
Theologie und Religionswissenschaft nach RGG4 (UTB, 2868), Tu¨-
bingen2007. FortextsfromAntiquityabbreviationscurrentinEng-
lish are used, mostly following D.J.A. Clines, The Sheffield Manual
for Authors and Editors in Biblical Studies, Sheffield 1997. In addi-
tion the following abbreviations have been used.
˜
* Reading deviating from .
˜
Masoretic Standard Text.
Ì
Septuagint (Old Greek).
Ê
Targum.
Í
Peshit.ta.
◊
Vulgate.
Àò
Aquila.
ßò
Symmachus.
Áò
Theodotion.
AHw W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handw¨orterbuch, 2
Bde, Wiesbaden 1965–1981.
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament (Mu¨nster).
AuS G. Dalman, Arbeit und Sitte in Pala¨stina, 8 Bde,
Gu¨tersloh/Berlin 1928–2001.
BDB F. Brown et al. (eds), A Hebrew and English Lexi-
con of the Old Testament, Oxford 1953 (1907).
BHSynt. B.K. Waltke & M. O’Connor, An Introduction to
Biblical Hebrew Syntax, Winona Lake 1990.
BL H.Bauer&P.Leander,Historische Grammatik der
hebr¨aischen Sprache, Halle 1922.
CAD The Assyrian Dictionary (oftheOrientalInstitute,
Chicago).
CEDHL E. Klein, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictio-
nary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of Eng-
lish, Jerusalem 1987.
CHANE Culture and History of the Ancient Near East (Lei-
den).
CoS W.W. Hallo et al. (eds), The Context of Scripture,
4 vols, Leiden, 1997–2017.