Excerpt from The Massoretic Text and the Ancient Versions of the Book of Micah<br><br>IN the writer of an essay on the text of Micah it would be mere all'ectation to profess that he has attacked the subject without knowing, and to some extent being affected by, the views of others. He would at the outset lie open to the pertinent inquiry into the reason for his selecting this particular portion of the Old Testament. The present writer was fully aware of the existence of two directly Opposed opinions, one of which holds the Massoretic Text to be in an extremely unsatisfactory state, whilst the other maintains that it has undergone but little corruption. But it seemed to him quite feasible to work out his own conclusions by careful observation of the phenomena presented by the current Hebrew Text and the Ancient Versions, and then to reconsider those.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.