Micah

Micah contains some of the earliest writing we have from the Old Testament. Micah was a contemporary of Isaiah, but unlike Isaiah, who is associated with Jerus

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he past, some critics were skeptical about the Mican authorship of one passage, 6:1-8, and this was largely because they believed that the literary qualities of the passage were somewhat above what the rustic Judahite could have accomplished on his own. Today we recognize that the passage has made use of set formulas and traditional liturgical language that would have been at Micah's disposal and that the content of this passage is appropriate to the era of Micah and not to a later period as previously believed. One of the chief problems with the text has been the issue of how much of the content is by the prophet and how much wa added by later generations. The original view was that the entire work was by Micah, but since 1850 there has been a tendency to challenge this assumption. However, there is little agreement on which sections have been added by other hands. The period of growth for the manuscript covered some 500 years, from the time some collector edited what was available of the addresses into a manuscript shortly after 700 B.C. until the collection became regarded as sacred scripture somewhere around 200 B.C. After that date, it was considered unalterable text, and no further additions were permissible. Micah is
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Approximate Word count = 2470
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)