Zephaniah I 2-3: The "Sweeping" of Creation

Realigning the Cosmos: The intertextual image of judgment and restoration in Zephaniah

“… 12. E.g., Liudger Sabottka, Zephanja: Versuch einer Neuübersetzung mit philologischem Kommentar , BibOr 25 (Rome: Biblical Institute, 1972), 10–12; Hubert Irsigler, Gottesgericht und Jahwetag: die Komposition Zef 1, 1-2, 3, unters auf der Grundlage der Literarkritik des Zefanjabuches , ATSAT 3 (St. Ottilien: EOS, 1977), 405; Michael De Roche, “Zephaniah 1:2-3: The ‘Sweeping’ of Creation,” VT 30 (1980): 104–9; Ralph L. Smith, Micah-Malachi , WBC 32 (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1984), 126–27; Bernard Renaud, “Le livre de Sophonie: Le jour de YHWH thème structurant de la synthèse rédactionnelle,” RSR 60 (1986): 7; Nogalski, Literary Precursors , 187–88, 194; Adele Berlin, Zephaniah: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary , AB 25A (New York: Doubleday, 1994), 81–82; Schart, Die Entstehung , 206–7, 242; James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve: Micah-Malachi , SHBC (Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys, 2011), 713; Nogalski, “Zephaniah’s Use of Genesis 1-11,” 351–72; David P. Melvin, “Making All Things New (Again): Zephaniah’s Eschatological Vision of a Return to Primeval Time,” in Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel’s Chaoskampf Hypothesis , ed. Joann Scurlock and Richard H. Beal (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013), 273–76. …”