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Zephaniah is only three chapters long, and it comes out swinging: God announces plans to sweep every living thing off the face of the earth, and it escalates from there. This episode, we're going cover to cover through one of the twelve minor prophets: what "the day of the Lord" meant before there was such a thing as eschatology, who exactly the "host of heaven" are, and why "minor" has nothing to do with quality. Then, after forty verses of unrelenting devastation, the book pivots to "sing aloud, O daughter Zion" — so who tacked on the happy ending, and why? _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Zephaniah, Cover to Cover 1:09 Three Chapters, No Mercy 2:06 What "-iah" Actually Means 3:53 Why "Minor" Prophets? 4:58 Dating It to Josiah 6:22 Later Editors at Work 7:48 Sweeping Away Everything 10:12 Baal, Milcom, and Rooftops 11:43 The Host of Heaven 12:54 Deuteronomy's Divine Council 15:07 The Day of the Lord 17:04 The Book's Three Movements 19:40 Oracles Against the Nations 21:15 Converting the Dead 23:19 No Messiah Here 24:18 Who Added the Happy Ending? 25:34 A Prophecy That Failed 27:51 Nobody Weaponizes Zephaniah 28:57 The Great Horned Omen 30:36 Wrap-Up _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Zephaniah #MinorProphets #HebrewBible