Book Written: Around 612 B.C.
Time Period/Setting: The fall of Nineveh in 612 B.C.
Author: Nahum hails from a town called Elkosh, geographic location unknown.
The tone of this book is considered to be a bit haughty and hateful though the book is also regarded as poetic and among the best written in the OT (Baker). Nahum speaks of the fact that Assyrians will now get their comeuppance (at the hands of the Babylonians) and will suffer as they have made the Israelites suffer for so many years.
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