“Disloyalty for Disloyalty: A Study of Obadiah 7”
Obadiah 7 describes a broken international treaty. Who are the ones who break theirinternational treaty with Edom? The identity of these allies is uncertain, but it has been suggested that they could be the Babylonians, Arabtribes, or Nabataeans. These anonymous allies in the text would havebeen eas...
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| Publicado en: | Revista Theologika |
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| Formato: | Artículo de revista |
| Lenguaje: | español |
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Facultad de Teología de la Universidad Peruana Unión
2019
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| Sumario: | Obadiah 7 describes a broken international treaty. Who are the ones who break theirinternational treaty with Edom? The identity of these allies is uncertain, but it has been suggested that they could be the Babylonians, Arabtribes, or Nabataeans. These anonymous allies in the text would havebeen easily identified by the first hearers and readers of the oracle since,at that time, Edom had a treaty of peace and cooperation with Babylon.Within only a few more decades this treaty was broken under the leadership of Nabonidus, when the Babylonian army and vassal states attackedEdom. The Edomites underestimated the possibility of any such attackfrom their Babylonian “friend” and had an excessive confidence in theirgeographic location (v. 3). The Babylonian army and their vassal statesare those who would sack all of the riches of Edom (v. 6) and would killtheir soldiers (v. 9). These are the ones who would lay traps, deceive,subjugate, and push Edom to their borders (v. 7). |
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| ISSN: | 2413-2470 1022-5390 |