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Zephaniah: A Commentary on the Book of Zephaniah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Zephaniah poses a full range of interpretive and hermenutical issues for the modern reader. Sweeney’s keen reading of this small, prophetic book opens new doors for Hebrew Bible research. The author’s interpretation pays close attention to the often subtle differences between the Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, Peshitta, and targums. His methodology includes form...

rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple in the early Persian period immediately following the end of the Babylonian exile. Such a sequence suggests that the book of Zephaniah, which is fundamentally concerned with the threat of judgment posed to Jerusalem and Judah on the so-called Day of YHWH, is to be read not in relation to King Josiah’s efforts at religious reform and national restoration in the late seventh century BCE,4 but instead in relation to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, Judah,
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