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GENERAL PREFACE
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
OBADIAH
INTRODUCTION
1. Authorship
2. Historical setting
3. Genre, structure and unity
ANALYSIS
COMMENTARY
A. Introduction (1)
B. First oracle against Edom (2–4)
C. Second oracle against Edom (5–9)
D. Third oracle against Edom (10–14)
E. Announcement of salvation and judgment in the Day of yhwh (15–21)
JONAH
INTRODUCTION
1. Authorship and date
2. Historical setting
3. Genre, structure and unity
ANALYSIS
COMMENTARY
1. FIRST COMMISSION, DIVINE MERCY TO NON-ISRAELITES, JONAH’S RESPONSE (1:1 – 2:10)
A. First divine commission and Jonah’s disobedience (A) (1:1–3)
B. Jonah and the non-Israelite sailors (B) (1:4–16)
C. Jonah’s deliverance and response/prayer (C) (1:17 – 2:10 [Heb. 2:1–11])
2. SECOND COMMISSION, DIVINE MERCY TO NON-ISRAELITES, JONAH’S RESPONSE (3:1 – 4:11)
A. Second divine commission and Jonah’s obedience (A′) (3:1–3a)
B. Jonah and the Ninevites (B′) (3:3b–10)
C. Nineveh’s deliverance and Jonah’s response/prayer (C′) (4:1–4)
D. yhwh contests Jonah’s response (D) (4:5–11)
MICAH
INTRODUCTION
1. Authorship and date
2. Historical setting
3. Genre, structure and unity
ANALYSIS
TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
1. FIRST CYCLE (1:1 – 2:13)
A. Introduction (1:1)
B. Global theophany (1:2–4)
C. Judgment against Samaria and Jerusalem (1:5–9a)
D. Lament over the cities of Judah (1:9b–16)
E. Woe against those who expropriate their fellow citizens’ land (2:1–5)
F. Polemic against false prophets (2:6–11)
G. Oracle of salvation (2:12–13)
2. SECOND CYCLE (3:1 – 5:15)
A. First Judgment Speech (against political leaders) (3:1–4)
B. Second Judgment Speech (against false prophets) (3:5–8)
C. Third Judgment Speech (against civil and religious leaders) (3:9–12)
D. yhwh will restore Zion, call the nations and rule over all people (4:1–8)
E. yhwh will deliver Zion from the nations and from exile in Babylon (4:9–13)
F. yhwh’s ruler will shepherd the flock that yhwh delivers (5:1–6 [Heb. 4:14 – 5:5])
G. The remnant among the nations (5:7–9 [Heb. 6–8])
H. yhwh forms the remnant and punishes disobedient nations (5:10–15 [Heb. 9–14])
3. THIRD CYCLE (6:1 – 7:20)
A. Israel’s failure to live as yhwh’s people (6:1–8)
B. Israel’s sin and its punishment (6:9–16)
C. Micah laments the guilt and imminent punishment of Judah (7:1–6)
D. Daughter Zion’s faith, deliverance and praise (7:7–20)
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