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==Language==

==Language==

The book was written entirely in [[Hebrew]]. Stylistically, it has been described as "a forceful book. Its language is vigorous... and betrays an acquaintance with the Earlier Prophets."<ref>Hirsch, Emil G., Price, Ira Maurice ''Zephaniah'' (1901) The [[Jewish Encyclopedia]].</ref> Faulhaber, in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', observed: "it is confined to the range of thought common to all prophectic exhortations: threats of judgment, exhortation to [[penance]], promise of Messianic [[salvation]]. For this reason [it] might be regarded as the [archetype] of Hebrew Prophets and as the final example of the prophetic terminology. [The author] does not seek the glory of an original writer, but borrows freely both ideas and style from the older Prophets... The language is vigorous and earnest, as become the seriousness of the period, but is free from the gloomy elegiac tone of [[Jeremiah]]. In some passages it becomes pathetic and poetic, without however attaining the classical diction or poetical flight of a [[Nahum (Biblical book)|Nahum]] or Deutero-Isaiah. There is something solemn in the manner in which the Lord is so frequently introduced as the speaker, and the sentence of judgment falls on the silent earth. Apart from the few plays on words [he] eschews all rhetorical and poetical ornamentation of language.<ref>Faulhaber, Michael. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14146a.htm "Sophonias (Zephaniah)"] The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved 29 July 2008.</ref>.

The book was written entirely in [[Hebrew]]. Stylistically, it has been described as "a forceful book. Its language is vigorous... and betrays an acquaintance with the Earlier Prophets."<ref>Hirsch, Emil G., Price, Ira Maurice ''Zephaniah'' (1901) The [[Jewish Encyclopedia]].</ref> Faulhaber, in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', observed: "it is confined to the range of thought common to all prophectic exhortations: threats of judgment, exhortation to [[penance]], promise of Messianic [[salvation]]. For this reason [it] might be regarded as the [archetype] of Hebrew Prophets and as the final example of the prophetic terminology. [The author] does not seek the glory of an original writer, but borrows freely both ideas and style from the older Prophets... The language is vigorous and earnest, as become the seriousness of the period, but is free from the gloomy elegiac tone of [[Jeremiah]]. In some passages it becomes pathetic and poetic, without however attaining the classical diction or poetical flight of a [[Nahum (Biblical book)|Nahum]] or Deutero-Isaiah. There is something solemn in the manner in which the Lord is so frequently introduced as the speaker, and the sentence of judgment falls on the silent earth. Apart from the few plays on words [he] eschews all rhetorical and poetical ornamentation of language.<ref>Faulhaber, Michael. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14146a.htm "Sophonias (Zephaniah)"] The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved 29 July 2008.</ref>

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