Micah (prophet)

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Micah (prophet)

Micah the titular prophet of the Book of Micah

Book of Micah

The Book of Micah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, traditionally attributed to Micah ....
, also called "The Morasthite". He is not the same as another prophet, Micaiah

Micaiah

Micaiah son of Imlah is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible. He gave a negative prophesy to Ahab , for which he was put in jail. Ahab later died in battle, according to the word of this one true prophet among 400 false prophets....
son of Imlah. He is counted among the minor prophets in the Tanakh

Tanakh

The Tanakh is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew language Acronym and initialism formed from the initial Hebrew alphabet of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim - hence TaNaKh....
(Old Testament

Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
).

h prophesied throughout the reigns of Jotham

Jotham

Jotham is the name of two people of the Hebrew Bible:1. The youngest of Gideon's seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech ....
, Ahaz

Ahaz

Ahaz was king of kingdom of Judah, and the son and successor of Jotham of Judah. He took the throne at the age of twenty . William F. Albright has dated his reign to 735 – 715 BC, while Edwin R....
, and Hezekiah

Hezekiah

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Micah the titular prophet of the Book of Micah

Book of Micah

Micaiah

Tanakh

Old Testament

Authorship

Micah prophesied throughout the reigns of Jotham

Jotham

Jotham is the name of two people of the Hebrew Bible:1. The youngest of Gideon's seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech ....
, Ahaz

Ahaz

Hezekiah

Hezekiah was the 13th king of independent kingdom of Judah.His reign has been dated from 715 – 687 BC or 716 – 687 BC. Under either of these chronologies, Hezekiah ruled the southern kingdom of Judah during the forced resettlement of the northern kingdom of Israel by Sargon II's Assyrians and the invasion and siege of Jerusale...
, roughly 737–690 BC. Micah was brought up in a small hometown, and it was in this small village that God supposedly revealed information for Micaiahu of Moresheth (likely Moresheth-Gath in the Philistine Plain). The prophet's name, in its elongated form "Micaiahu", is commonly translated "Who is like Yahweh?" or possibly, "He who is like Yahweh", and his pursuit of the ministry in response to this question continued the prophetic tradition of calling Israel back into communion with God. Micah's teaching is often compared to the other minor prophet, Hosea, on his teaching about social insecurities.

Micah grew up in the poorer, working class area of his small farming community. The quality of his prophecy, however, has caused many scholars to believe that he received a good education and/or may have been one of the wealthier members of the community, a land owner. Still others saw he was poor and very unwealthy

Liturgical commemoration

He is commemorated with the other Minor prophet

Minor prophet

A minor prophet is one of the writings in the Twelve Prophets section of the Hebrew Bible, also known to Christians as the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament....
s in the Calendar of saints

Calendar of Saints (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Days of observance - 2007...
of the Armenian Apostolic Church

Armenian Apostolic Church

The Armenian Apostolic Church is the world's oldest national church and one of the most ancient Christianity communities.The official name of the church is the One Holy Universal Apostolic Orthodox Armenian Church ....
on July 31. In the Eastern Orthodox Church

Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
he is commemorated twice in the year. The first feast day is January 5 (for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
, January 5 currently falls on January 18 of the modern Gregorian Calendar

Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
). However, since January 5 is also the Eve

Eve

Eve is the first woman created by God in the Book of Genesis.Eve may also refer to:...
of the Theophany (Epiphany), his major celebration is on August 14 (the forefeast of the Dormition).

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Orthodox icon
Icon

An 'icon' is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity. More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics; by extension, ...
and synaxarion for January 5
Orthodox icon and synaxarion for August 14