Comments on: Reserve Reading – Toward a Theology of Nahum

By: Brock Reilley

Brock Reilley — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:22:03 +0000

I don’t understand what the reference to breaking the “yoke” of the Assyrians means? and the rest of that paragraph. pg 6

By: celeste binkerd

celeste binkerd — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:14:07 +0000

who was someone who has gone as far as to say that Naham is an unmitigated hymn of hate?

By: Anne Bertles

Anne Bertles — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:22:43 +0000

Does the degree of severity or the mode of punishment ever correlate with the crime committed?

By: Wesley Deason

Wesley Deason — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:21:09 +0000

Why are the Assyrians looked so bad upon and why is God punishing them so much, when other countries were sinful as well. Did God really believe they were too far gone to save?

By: Conner

Conner — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:20:09 +0000

Pg 4 says “What changed is the behavior of the Assyrians.” How did it change? Weren’t they always known for their tyranny? When did any behavior other than synnical behavior occur?

By: Hannah Wyall

Hannah Wyall — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:16:32 +0000

My question comes from page 2. Since God is loving and compassionate and slow to anger, why would he be angry at and punish all the way to the 4th generation of people for crimes their forefathers committed? This seems strange to me because they obviously cannot choose what family they were born into. Unless they committed the same crimes, why would God punish them?

By: Jessica Maurizi

Jessica Maurizi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:14:03 +0000

Page 4
What do you mean by ” nahum is the ironic fulfillment of what jonah apparently wanted”?
Is this talking about Jonah’s want for the disobedient nation to be punished?

By: Brittany King

Brittany King — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:13:47 +0000

In the original context of Nahum it says that it is a prophecy against Ninevah, but in the commentary it seems like it’s a prophecy against the entire nation. which is it?

By: Laura Kompara

Laura Kompara — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:06:39 +0000

Why was Nahum exulted at the suffering and destruction of Neneveh? (page 3)

By: Kara Sipe

Kara Sipe — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:51:29 +0000

I don’t quite understand how Nahum can describe Yahweh as a God of vengeance, whose anger annihilates everything in his path and then go on to say that He is slow to anger. Those two things just don’t go together in my mind. Page 5.