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The cultural and historical distance between the Old Testament prophets and their modern readers makes close study difficult. While these individuals spoke from God and therefore left a message that will always be relevant, God delivered His words through the vehicle of the prophets and their own situation in life. I have tried here to use the tools of language and history to help the reader...

A. Edom and the Nations Judged According to Their Treatment of Israel (15–16) B. Edom and the Nations Possessed by the Remnant of Israel (17–21) Theological Context J. Alberto Soggin says that Obadiah’s book is “of little theological interest.”25 If one focuses on the apparently narrow perspective of a people’s outrage against an ally that betrayed them and of their longing for vengeance, one might possibly concur. However, the themes of the book have a much broader theological interest. Edom,
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