![]() ![]() Read the whole exchange here, in which in addition to his intelligence, Professor Bauerlein should be commended for his generous civility. Micah’s prophecy of Jerusalem’s destruction was. The book begins by declaring Yahweh’s intention to cut off humanity from the face of the earth (1:3), but in the middle of chapter 3 changes tone to announce that The Lord has taken away. The book of Zephaniah was compiled at the time of Josiah’s reign in Judah. Like the teachings of the prophet Isaiah, many of Micah’s teachings are written in the style of Hebrew poetry. The 7th Century decline of Assyria and rise of Babylon. That Ward often encourages Bauerlein to write his own literary history on the figures and topics that have long been excluded while still claiming that the Harvard history is new and fresh is more than a little ironic. Micah is the only book in the Old Testament to name Bethlehema town little among the thousands of Judah ( Micah 5:2 )as the place where the Messiah would be born. Micah was God’s final prophet to the Northern Kingdom. Micah was a country preacher, while Isaiah was a court preacher. The author of this book, Micah, was a contemporary with Isaiah. ![]() It is simply a reification (to borrow that popular Marxist term) of what has long been assumed about the nature of history in general and American literary history in particular in the humanities. AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH, YET OUT OF THEE SHALL HE COME FORTH (Micah 5:2). In the first chapter, we are told that Israel’s gods are nothing more than a whore’s change, that the pride of each of her cities will become her downfall, and that God. Few books go as deep and as dark as Micah does so quickly. Indeed, what struck me most in reading the exchange and in flipping through the book was that this is not a new literary history at all. So in spite of its difficulties, here are four reasons to preach the book of Micah. No metanarrative hereexcept one, of course: what Bauerlein calls “a drama of multiculturalist emergence.” Unsurprisingly, the book does not just focus on literature, but also on history, politics, popular culture and art in a series of discrete position papers arranged chronologically. Having just received my own review copy of A New Literary History of America from Harvard University Press, I was intrigued to read Mark Bauerlein and Priscilla Ward’s email exchange on the book over at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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