“Who is like Yahweh?”

Juan Cruz
“Who is like Yahweh?”
A Study of Divine Metaphors in the
Book of Micah
Judge or Shepherd?
Juan Cruz examines two types of metaphors
for Yahweh in the book of Micah, the legal
metaphors and the pastoral metaphors,
which depict contrasting aspects of the same
God.
Juan Cruz considers the two groups of
divine metaphors in the book of Micah,
namely the legal metaphors in 1:2–16 and
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6:1–16 and the pastoral metaphors in
2:12–13, 4:6–7, 5:1–4a and 7:14–20. He
aims to contribute to the literary analysis of
these metaphors and so help to achieve a
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better understanding of God as portrayed in
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in particular.
the Hebrew Bible and in the book of Micah
Using theories that can integrate these
metaphors without denying their
contradictions, Cruz offers an approach that
recognises how the metaphors for God both
complement one another and demonstrate
tension with each other in the context of the
whole book.
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Juan Cruz, PhD, is former lecturer of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew in PTS
College & Advanced Studies, Philippines, from 2004–2010. He is currently volunteer
minister of Northfield Parish Church, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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