Nahum: a new translation with introduction and commentary

This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Duane Christensen, a renowned biblical scholar, offers a detailed analysis of the Hebrew text of Nahum and demonstrates the i...

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Subtitles:Prophetia
Main Author: Christensen, Duane L. 1938- (Author)
Contributors: Nahum ca. um 700/600 v. Chr. (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2009
In: The Anchor Bible (24F)
Year: 2009
Reviews:, in: RBLit (2010)* (2010)* (Spronk, Klaas)
, in: CBQ 72 (2010) 791-792 (Renz, Thomas)
, in: RBLit 12 (2010) 190-193 (Spronk, Klaas)
, in: RBLit 13 (2011)* 13 (2011)* (Scaiola, Donatella)
, in: BZ 55 (2011) 311-314 (Fabry, Heinz-Josef)
Series/Journal:The Anchor Bible 24F
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nahum
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Commentary
B Bible. Nahum Commentaries
B Nahum
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Summary:This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Duane Christensen, a renowned biblical scholar, offers a detailed analysis of the Hebrew text of Nahum and demonstrates the intricate literary structure and high poetic quality of the work. Nahum is a book about God's justice and portrays God as strong, unyielding, and capable of great anger. This view of God's nature stands in contrast to that found in Jonah, another book in the section of the Hebrew Bible known as the Book of the Twelve Prophets, which presents God as "compassionate, gracious.... and abounding in steadfast love." Christensen shows how Nahum and Jonah present complementary aspects of God's nature, each essential for an understanding of the divine being
Item Description:Einheitssacht. des kommentierten Werkes: Nahum : Prophetia
ISBN:0300144792