Book of Nahum

<p>The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 <a href="/facts/Minor_prophets/gY2kvXbk">minor prophets</a> of the <a href="/facts/Hebrew_Bible/y8yblF9f">Hebrew Bible</a>. The book has three chapters. It is attributed to the prophet <a href="/facts/Nahum/ACGFy8Gr">Nahum</a>. The most general historical setting of Nahum as a prophet was 663 BC to 612 BC, while the historical setting that produced the book of Nahum is debated, with proposed timeframes ranging from shortly after the <a href="/facts/Sack_of_Thebes/K16j5BjS">fall of Thebes</a> in 663 BC to the <a href="/facts/Maccabean/nD1Ipatw">Maccabean</a> period around 175-165 BC. Another view, held by the ancient historian <a href="/facts/Josephus/RgFoKIYH">Josephus</a>, proposes that the book of Nahum was from the reign of <a href="/facts/Jotham/sqH05fvD">Jotham</a>. This identification is supported by both the <a href="/facts/Greek_language/pzDd6eIz">Greek</a> <a href="/facts/Septuagint/jGpbyr2n">Septuagint</a> and the <a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> <a href="/facts/Vulgate/RCVJAlJE">Vulgate</a>, both of which refer to Thebes in the present tense rather than the past tense.  Its principal theme is the destruction of the <a href="/facts/Assyria/n9pMP48S">Assyrian</a> city of <a href="/facts/Nineveh/yl44Guzj">Nineveh</a>.
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Book of Nahum