Zephaniah: A Commentary.(Book Review)

Shofar | June 22, 2005| | Copyright

Zephaniah: A Commentary, by Marvin A. Sweeney. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003. 226 pp. $47.00.

With his commentary on Zephaniah in the Hermeneia series, Marvin Sweeney adds a further work to his previous comprehensive oeuvre on the Prophets. Within the last few years, a number of commentaries on the book of Zephaniah have been published, differing considerably from one another both in methodology and in content.

In the beginning (pp. 1-41), Sweeney offers a comprehensive summary of the different ancient text versions (the masoretic version; the LXX; the ...

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