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

Nahum’s prophecy of Nineveh’s coming destruction. Habakkuk’s probing dialogue with the Lord of Israel. Zephaniah’s warning to Jerusalem’s last great king. The texts of these minor but important prophets receive a fresh and penetrating analysis in this introduction and commentary. David W. Baker considers each book’s historical setting, composition, structure and authorship as well as important...

(Jer. 46:2).5 The invasion anticipated by Habakkuk could have been any time prior to 587 BC, when Jerusalem was finally destroyed by the Babylonians. These prophecies were probably given some time earlier. A suitable period is the reign of Jehoiakim (609–598 BC), for it was during his reign that the Babylonian presence was increasingly felt.6 They marched against Judah in 598 BC, and Jehoiakim then died, possibly by assassination (cf. Jer. 22:18–19; 36:30). The personal knowledge of the Babylonian
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