Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Lloyd Barre <barre AT c-zone.net>]

Dear List Members:

I suspect that this passages has been edited so as to reverse a positive 
portrayal of Micayehu and his mother into a negative one.  I suspect 
editorial glosses in the compound definition of the image or two images (?) 
made for his shrine (pesel wemassekah [vv 3, 4]) and in the seemingly 
intrusive and corrective statement in v 6 that "In those days there was no 
king in Israel; everyman did what was right in his own eyes."(cp. 18:1; 
19:1).  If we bracket out these alleged glosses, do we find a positive 
portrayal of Micayehu in which none of his actions are cast in negative 
light, but rather advocated by its author?

For Your Consideration,

Lloyd M. Barre, Ph.D.

barre AT c-zone.net
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