The Book of Nahum: A New Metrical Translation With an Introduction, Restoration of the Hebrew Text and Explanatory and Critical Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Josephus, who gives a paraphrase of Nah. 28-13 in his Jewish Antiquities (ix 11 3) believed that Nahum prophe sied 115 years before the destruction of Nineveh but Nahum's poem on the fall of Nineveh is the description of a contemporary, if not an eye-witness. The second part of the title of the Book of Nahum, The Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite, belongs to the fourth poem describing the fall of Nineveh, while the first part, The Utterance on Nineveh, should be prefixed to the third poem predicting the fall of Nineveh. The Vision of Nahum was composed after the fall of Nineveh in 606, and the Utterance on Nineveh was written after the invaders had begun the long siege of the great capital of Assyria - the strongest fortress of Western Asia.

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