Micah with Dr. Mark Gignilliat

Dr. Mark Gignilliat (Beeson Divinity School) guides us through the Book of Micah. We discuss:

* Micah’s historical context

* Loving God and loving neighbor as the key themes of Micah

* The significance of Micah’s position between Jonah and Nahum

* The interplay of God’s judgment against Israel and the nations

* The significance of Micah 3:12 in the center of the Twelve, and its theme of the death and resurrection of Zion.

* Does Micah 4:5 depict a future eschatological vision where Israel worships its God while the other nations worship their gods?

* The promise of a ruler who will come from Bethlehem (Micah 5:2)

* The meaning of Micah 6:8, “And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God.”

* The interplay of judgment and restoration in Micah 7, and how Micah 7:18–20 uses Exodus 34, where God reveals himself as “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love . . . yet by no means clearing the guilty.”

Works by Mark Gignilliat

* Micah, International Theological Commentary, T&T Clark, 2019

* Reading Scripture Canonically: Theological Instincts for Old Testament Interpretation. Baker Academic, 2019

Dr. Mark Gignilliat recommends

* Make your own sausage and salami

* Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus, Oneworld, 2016

* Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Yale University Press, 2009

* Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2 volumes, Perspectiva, 2021

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