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This commentary concerns writings which emerged from three successive stages in Judah’s decline and captivity—the century of fear engendered by the Assyrian menace (addressed in Nahum), the shock and disorientation that followed the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem (Obadiah), and the necessary dilemma of adapting yet maintaining their uniqueness in an alien setting (Esther). All three books...

all of whose people were descended from them. The relation between the stories of individuals in Genesis and the later “brotherhood” of nations is a complex one, not least because of the geographical shift that has taken place. Edom was in the far south, whereas the stories of Jacob and Esau place their activities in central Transjordan. The Genesis stories already give some indication of a more complex development by the inclusion of such notes as Gen. 25:30b (“Therefore his name was called Edom”),
Pages 71–72
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