Micah 4 The Exalted Mountain and the Cosmic Garden
Walk the sun-drenched streets of the mid-eighth century B.C. and you will find a society at the absolute pinnacle of its material power under the forty-year reign of King Jeroboam II, complete with high-walled urban centers, lucrative trade, and lavish estates adorned with ivory. Yet beneath this gilded facade lay a rotting culture fueled by systemic injustice and a highly profitable syncretism that blended the worship of Yahweh with reliance on the Canaanite storm god, Baal. With the Neo-Assyrian Empire, revived by Tiglath-Pileser III, casting an iron shadow over the Levant from the north…
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