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Habakkuk: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Habakkuk (one of the twelve Minor Prophets) is an intensely personal testimony played out against a highly political backdrop. Writing as his land and his fellow Israelites were being invaded and plundered by the Chaldeans, Habakkuk questions God’s actions with a passion equal to Job’s. Habakkuk wonders, how can a God who is just and compassionate allow his people to be slaughtered?...

Cannon (1925) succeeded in explaining the variety of points of view within the book in terms of development in the prophet’s outlook over a period of time. The unity of the book is found, not on the formal level, but in a continuity of experience in the life of Habakkuk himself. To sum up. There is no sure proof of the date of the book as a whole, or of any constituent part. As long as it is not tampered with, or explained as symbolic, the reference to the Chaldeans in Hab 1:6 points to the Neo-Babylonian
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