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Septuagint - Zephaniah
By Scriptural Research Institute
Length1h 6m
About this audiobook
The Book of Zephaniah is generally considered one of the older surviving books of the Judahite books, with most scholars dating it to the era it claims to have been written in, during the reign of King Josiah of Judah. King Josiah ruled between 640 and 609 BCE, and Zephaniah’s book is set in a world consistent with that era. King Josiah also engaged in a massive religious reformation starting in 632 BCE, which Zephaniah’s book is generally consistent with. There are some inconsistencies in the way the Greek and Hebrew translations treat the old Canaanite gods, with the Hebrew translation reducing some of them to an epithet of Yahweh, the national god of Josiah’s Judah. Conversely, the Greek translation generally treats them as opposing gods to be destroyed.
Based on the contents of Zephaniah’s writing, the book must have been composed before the Fall of Nineveh, in 612 BCE, shortly after the Chaldean revolt of 626 BCE. The Chaldean revolt against the Assyrians captured Babylon in its first year and coronated Nabopolassar as King of Babylon. King Josiah switched allegiances quickly from Assyria to Babylon, and four years later began his religious reforms, banning the worship of all gods other than Yahweh, several of which Zephaniah mentioned as being worshiped in Jerusalem in his writing.
Zephaniah mentioned several gods in his book which were explicitly mentioned in 4th Kingdoms, during King Josiah’s religious reforms. The opening verses denounce the worship of Ba'al, which is treated as a proper name, and therefore is almost certainly a reference to Hadad, the Canaanite storm god, commonly called Ba'al. He then denounced those who worshiped the army of Shamayim, which, based on the Book of Daniel, were the stars, as some copies of Daniel use the phrase “armies of Shamayim,” while other copies use “stars of Shamayim.” Shamayim was the name of the Canaanite god of the “skies,” and the god Jonah identified as the god of his Assyrian owner when he went to prophesy in Nineveh. As all of the geographic references in the Book of Jonah locate his life in Assyrian-occupied Samaria, and later the Assyrian capital of Nineveh, it is likely he was a Samarian slave shortly after the Assyrians had occupied Samaria, as it is recorded that they reduced the entire population to slavery.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length1 hr 6 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Forward
5Septuagint Manuscripts
2Chapter 1
6Alternative Sources
3Chapter 2
7Dead Sea Scrolls
4Chapter 3
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