[Avodah] Micah and Yeshayahu

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

just to make clearer
pasuk Yeshayahu 2:3 and Micha 4:2 are almost identical  (including ki
me-tzion tezeh torah).
We have a rule that every prophet uses his own language so why would 2
prophets have identical language?
The answer of R. Yoel bin-Nun is that Micah was a student of Yeshayahu (we
know from Tanach that he started prophesizing later) and so he was quoting
his teacher.  R. Benny Lau continued that the next pesukim are different
because Micah disagreed with Yeshayahu's vision of the future. While
Yeshayahu stressed individual responsibility Micah stressed a just
government.

BTW for most neviim Tanach gives the dates (in terms of kings) when they
taught. Hence, when chazal state that 4 neviim prophesized at the same time
they are just stressing was is already in Tanach. Some of the exceptions
where we have no dates include Yonah,Yoel and Ovadiah. In fact there are
major debates in the academic world as to when Yoel lived.

-- 
Eli Turkel
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