It's time to meet the prophet Micah, whose name poses the question: Who is like God? To modern ears such a question is just religious talk. But to the ancients there was no concept more utterly radical than a single deity, understood as being completely and utterly separate from the physical universe. And that is the actual meaning of the Hebrew word “Holy” (kadosh) – “separate.” But who exactly was this Micah? A militant nationalist? A true visionary, proclaiming an “anointed” figure to sit on David’s throne, and who happens to hail from Bethlehem? The answers await…
