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with a preference for Hebrew manuscripts place Nahum's prophecy after the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal's Sack of Thebes in 663 BC. This view is the current majority opinion because the city of Thebes is referred to in the past tense in the Masoretic Text of Nahum 3:8-10. However, both the Septuagint and Vulgate refer to the city

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