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Micah's Debate with Isaiah

This article observes the interrelationship between Isa. 2.2–4, 5 and Mic. 4.1–5, but it eschews previous attempts to reconstruct the original or common form of the composition. Based upon an analysis of the unique formulations of these passages in relation to their respective literary contexts in Isaiah and Micah, it argues that each serves a unique religio-political agenda. Whereas Isa. 2.2–4 looks forward to an idyllic period of world peace in which Israel/Judah will join the nations in acknowledging Yhwh's sovereignty as part of the larger Persian empire, Mic. 4.1–5 looks forward to an era of world peace in which a righteous Davidic monarch will arise to punish the nations prior to acknowledgement of Yhwh's sovereignty. The different agendas in these texts point to a debate within earlier Persian-period Judah concerning the character of the restoration and Judah's relationship to the Persian empire.