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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...

remains a disputed question. Moreover, it is not clear that a firm answer to that question, whether negative or positive, would contribute significantly to a better understanding of the prophet’s message. A theological evaluation of the message can only be based on its content, not on the prophet’s position inside or outside the establishment. The prophet is deeply concerned about the injustice he sees in Judean life, and he is dissatisfied with prophetic theologies of history that resolve that injustice
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