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Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary builds on the work of previous scholarship and addresses contemporary issues. It gives serious attention to questions of textual criticism, philology, history, and Near Eastern backgrounds and is sensitive to the literary conventions characteristic of the prophetic literature of the Old Testament. The book is an earnest attempt to hear the message of the ancient prophets, a...

I am inclined to think the prophet intentionally played with such a double meaning. Behind the surface meaning, “Write the vision legibly on the tablets so that the one reading from it can read quickly,” lies the deeper meaning, “Write the vision on the tablets and make its import plain so that the one reading can take refuge in it.” One should note that up to this point the content of the vision has not been revealed. The prophet has been told to write it down, but the attentive reader is still
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