A Historical-Critical Study of the Book of Zephaniah (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 198)

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. Acknowledgments 7 1. Introduction 13 1.1. General Issues 13 1.2. Methodological Guidelines 26 1.3. Special Issues in the Book of Zephaniah 29 2. Zephaniah through the age’s mirror: History of the interpretation 33 3. Textual, linguistic and comparative notes 51 3.1 Preliminary remarks 51 3.2 Notes on Zephaniah 1 53 3.3 Notes on Zephaniah 2 149 3.4. Notes on Zephaniah 3 196 4. Commentary 274 4.1. Preliminary remarks 274 4.2. Commentary. Zephaniah 1 281 4.3 Commentary. Zephaniah 2 307 4.4 Commentary. Zephaniah 3 326 4.5. The structure of the Book of Zephaniah and its message 337 5. Conclusions 359 6. Bibliography 371 Introduction -- Zephaniah Through The Age's Mirror: History Of The Interpretation -- Textual, Linguistic And Comparative Notes -- Commentary -- Conclusions. Ehud Ben Zvi. Revision Of The Author's Thesis (ph. D.)--emory University, 1990. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-390).