(cf. Isa. 22:[24–]25*; 25:[6–]8*; Joel 3:[4–]8* and p. 66 below). This is the close, at least temporarily, of Obadiah’s collection of sayings about Edom. The verses that follow (19f.*) have clearly been added at some later point. Unlike the preceding sayings, these verses were conceived as literary additions from the very first. With regard to the catchword וירשׁו, “and shall possess,” from v. 17b*, we can detect an interpretative process comprising three stages in all. The first two stages in v.