Significant parts of the text of Micah were probably written as part of a book of several prophets& or twelve prophets& and can therefore only be adequately understood and interpreted in that context. A piece of Old Testament theological history thus becomes visible here that was not primarily concerned with the message of a single, individual prophetic figure, but above all with general testimony to YHWH=s speech and action in the history of his people. Zapff demonstrates this by reflecting diachronically on the results of a synchronic interpretation in order to trace the process of the creation of the text of Micah and its theological message.

Prof. Burkard M. Zapff teaches Old Testament Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.