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. The commentary includes the most extensive bibliography published to date of works cited.

Duane Christensen is professor of Old Testament languages and literature (retired), Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. He is President of BIBAL Corporation and lives in Rodeo, CA.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Principal Abbreviations	p. xi
Nahum: A Translation and Logoprosodic Analysis	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Logoprosodic Analysis and the Book of Nahum	p. 4
The Interpretation of Nahum in History	p. 17
Archaeomusicology and the Study of Nahum	p. 25
Reading Nahum as Literature	p. 39
The Historical Setting of Nahum and Nineveh	p. 52
The Text of the Book of Nahum	p. 64
Bibliography	p. 67
Notes and Comments
Heading (1:1)	p. 151
The Psalm of Nahum: YHWH's Vengeance (1:1-10)	p. 167
The Defeat of Belial (1:11-14)	p. 225
The Sack of Nineveh (2:1-11 [1:15-2:10])	p. 253
Dirge on the Lions' Den (2:11-14 [10-13])	p. 309
First Taunt: Nineveh's Shame Will Be Seen by the Nations (3:1-7)	p. 329
Second Taunt: Like Thebes, Nineveh Will Be Sacked (3:8-13)	p. 349
The Locust Dirge: An Image of Imminent Ruin (3:14-19)	p. 375
Indexes
Index of Authors	p. 399
Index of Subjects	p. 406
Index of Biblical and Other Ancient Sources	p. 409
Index of Languages	p. 419
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