(DOWNLOAD) "Septuagint: Zephaniah" by Scriptural Research Institute * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Septuagint: Zephaniah
- Author : Scriptural Research Institute
- Release Date : January 11, 2020
- Genre: Bible Studies,Books,Religion & Spirituality,Judaism,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 239 KB
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The Book of Zephaniah is generally considered one of the older surviving books of the Hebrew Scriptures, with most scholars dating it to before the Torah was written, or at least heavily redacted in the time of King Josiah. Most scholars accept that Zephaniah was written by a prophet called Zephaniah between 630 and 612 BC, however, very little is known about him. His world was very different from the later Kingdom of Judea that emerged in the 2nd-century BC, as the Israelites of his time were still polytheistic, worshiping the Canaanite gods, as well as statues of Iaw (Masoretic Yahweh), the God the Jews and Samaritans would later worship.
Based on the contents of Zephaniah's writing, the work must have been composed before the Fall of Nineveh, in 612 BC, and almost certainly before Josiah's reforms, which began in 622 BC, shortly after the Chaldean revolt of 626 BC. 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 worshipped in Jerusalem in his writing, confirming that he was writing before 622 BC.
Zephaniah mentioned several gods in his book which were explicitly mentioned in 4th Kingdoms (Masoretic Kings), during King Josiah's religious reforms. The open verses denounce the worship of the Lord (Ba'al), although does not specify which lord, and the Canaanites worshiped 70 lords (Elohim). He then denounced those who those worshiped the army of Shamayim, which, based on the Book of Jonah, appears to have been the Canaanite (and Hebrew) name of the Assyrian god Asshur, who by the 7th-century BC had become known as Ansar, which translates as the 'Whole Sky.' 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. Zephaniah goes on a verse later to warn the worshipers of Lord God, that the time of Iaw (Yahweh) is coming. El is the ancient Canaanite creator god, for whom Jacob built the Temple of El (בֵּית אֵל) in the Book of Genesis, and who the God the Israelites are named after. In the Book of Micah, the Temple of El was referred to as Jacob's Temple of El, which confirms that the Israelites in the 8th-century BC considered the Temple of El at Shiloh to be the Temple of El that Jacob built, in Genesis chapter 35.
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