TY  - BOOK
AU  - E. Aydeet Mueller
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Micah Story
T2  - A Morality Tale in the Book of Judges
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1092769
N2  - The author of the Micah story was probably active in the wake of the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. Calling into question recent understandings that highlight the Micah story in the book of Judges as a piece of political polemic, this book ascribes the text to a morality teacher standing firmly in the deuteronomic tradition. Idolatrous, immoral, fearful, and alienated from God, the protagonists do what is emphatically forbidden in the book of Deuteronomy. The moral of the Micah story: do not act like the protagonists, return to God, practice covenant loyalty, and remember that God never breaks the covenant with the people.
KW  - political polemic, God, loyalty
LA  - English
ER  -