Irudayaraj, Dominic S.2022-09-022022-09-022021Irudayaraj, D.S. 2021, 'Mountains in Micah and coherence : a “a SynDiaTopic” suggestion', Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 140, no. 4, pp. 703-722, doi : 10.15699/jbl.1404.2021.4.0021-9231 (print)1934-3876 (online)10.15699/jbl.1404.2021.4https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87031With recourse to some relevant postmodern sensibilities—especially the pertinence of peripheries and the value of plurality—this article examines the occurrences of mountain(s) in Micah with a view to highlighting the tension between the abstractness of space conceived of with a single center and the complex pluriformity of places that it overwrites. The work proceeds in two movements: (1) a syntopic (contra synchronic) reading that builds on the ancient western Asian worldviews of space, and (2) guided by theories of critical spatiality, a diatopic (contra diachronic) reading that highlights some peripheral details that contribute to the Mican vision, paving the way for a “syndiatopic” suggestion.enSociety of Biblical LiteratureSensibilitiesPluralityMountainsMicahArticle