Nahum
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Bible Trivia: The Minor Prophets
Twelve questions on the Book of the Twelve, at three levels, with every answer explained: who wrote what, which book fixes its own earliest date, and which one gives an examiner nothing to work with.
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The Fall of Nineveh — Nahum and the Babylonian Chronicles
Nahum announces the destruction of Nineveh. An independent Babylonian chronicle records the city falling in 612 BCE. The event is superbly attested; the date of the text is where the argument turns circular, and this dossier says so.
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Nahum
Three chapters against one city. Nahum is the shortest route into the central question of this site: Nineveh did fall, we know the year, and the whole argument is about when the poem was written.