| Table of Contents |
| | Acknowledgments | xi |
| | Abbreviations | xiii |
| | Bibliography | xvii |
| | Introduction | 1 |
| | Contexts for Micah and for Reading Micah | 2 |
| | International Context: Policies of Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia | 3 |
| | Mesopotamian Empires and Their Western Interests | 5 |
| | Eighth-Century Regional Contexts: Biblical History from the Lowlands | 8 |
| | Hezekiah's Revolt against Assyria: God's Protection, or Trapped "like a Bird in a Cage"? | 12 |
| Excursus 1 | LMLK Jar Stamps, Pillar Figurines, and Military Preparations in the Shephelah | 14 |
| | Moresheth as Frontier Town: Local Issues and Economy | 15 |
| | Plows and Swords: An Economics of Eighth-Century Rural Palestine | 18 |
| | Antimilitary Populism as the Ideological Context for Reading Micah | 20 |
| | Micah's Revolt and the Politics of Jeremiah | 26 |
| | Micah versus Isaiah? | 28 |
| | Is the Book of Micah a Revolutionary Text? | 30 |
| | Literary Observations on the Book of Micah | 31 |
| | Versions of the Text | 31 |
| | Organization of the Book: The Coherence of Micah | 32 |
| | Judgment and Hope/Salvation as Guiding Principles in Reading Micah? | 34 |
| | Micah as Drama? | 37 |
| | Jan Wagenaar's Analysis | 37 |
| | Coherence of Micah: Summary and Observations | 38 |
| | Micah among the Twelve | 40 |
| | Reading the Whole Book of Micah as Coherent | 43 |
| | Trauma and the Redaction of Micah | 44 |
| | COMMENTARY | |
| Micah 1:1 | Superscription | 45 |
| Excursus 2 | Micaiah ben Imlah | 46 |
| Micah 1:2--7 | Call to Court: Accusations against the Capital Cities | 48 |
| Excursus 3 | Feminist Analysis of Micah 1:6 and Beyond | 57 |
| Micah 1:8--9 | Initial Lament with Warning | 61 |
| Micah 1:10--16 | Impact of the Policies of Destruction | 67 |
| Micah 2:1--5 | Oppression of the Ruling Elite | 79 |
| Micah 2:6--7 | Micah Anticipates His Opponents' Objections | 90 |
| Micah 2:8--13 | Micah Condemns the Judean Military Elite and Denounces Their Prophetic Supporters in Judah | 94 |
| Micah 3:1--4 | Micah Accuses the Political and Military Leadership of Economic Cannibalism | 107 |
| Micah 3:5--8 | Against the Corrupt Prophetic Advisers | 113 |
| Micah 3:9--12 | Micah Warns the Central Leadership of Coming Judgment | 121 |
| Excursus 4 | Judgments against Samaria and Jerusalem | 125 |
| Micah 4:1--5 | Micah's Vision of the Economy of Peace | 128 |
| Excursus 5 | Peace Passage: Reading | |
| Micah 4:1--5 | In "Contexts" | 139 |
| Micah 4:6--10 | Building a New Society out of Crisis | 145 |
| Excursus 6 | "Lame" in the Greek Version | 147 |
| Micah 4:11--5:1 | Exilic-Era Insertion on Future Restoration (4:11--14 MT) | 155 |
| Excursus 7 | "Being Watched" in Micah and Biblical Literature | 157 |
| Micah 5:2--5a | Ideal King (5:1--4a MT) | 165 |
| Micah 5:5--6 | Curse and Warning against Assyria (5:4--5 MT) | 171 |
| Micah 5:7--15 | Judah over (or among?) the Nations (5:6--14 MT) | 176 |
| Excursus 8 | Lion among the Beasts | 179 |
| Micah 6:1--5 | God Reconvenes the Trial | 188 |
| Micah 6:6--8 | Prophet Advises the Accused | 192 |
| Micah 6:9--16 | God's Accusations of Injustice and Sentence | 198 |
| Micah 7:1 | Farmer-Prophet's Anguish | 206 |
| Micah 7:2--6 | Prophet Describes an Unjust and Disintegrating Society | 208 |
| Micah 7:7--13 | Vindication to Come | 214 |
| Micah 7:14--20 | Final Prayer for Deliverance | 219 |
| | Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources | 229 |
| | Index of Subjects and Authors | 253 |
