ABSTRACT
Two centuries ago, Voltaire mockingly complained that ''the Bible is better known than read.'' Among the many outstanding Biblical passages, the Vision of the End-Time in Micah occupies a unique place. Undoubtedly, the author of the Vision of Micah was thinking of the future, even of the distant future, but it is significant that there is no indication that he envisaged the establishment of the new world order as a result of a great cataclysm or of a special divine intervention. The contribution of the Vision of Micah to the formulation of human rights is not exhausted by its enunciation of the ideal of peace, nor even by its faith in the destined attainment of this goal. The author of the Vision of the End-Time looked forward, not to the elimination but to the moralization of national loyalties.
