TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christensen,Duane L.
TI  - Nahum: a new translation with introduction and commentary 
T2  - The Anchor Yale Bible
SN  - 9780300144796
AV  - BS1623 .N348 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - OldTestament Bible Study
KW  - OldTestament Commentaries
KW  - Bible
KW  - O.T
KW  - Nahum
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - Nahum Commentaries
KW  - Kommentar
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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
ER  -