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*the upper margin was first used, and then the side margin, causing the text to become "overcrowded and blurred, this later on causing in the second part of the psalm an inextricable confusion from which the first was preserved"<ref>Souvay, Charles. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10670a.htm "Nahum"] The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. Retrieved 28 July 2008.</ref>  

*the upper margin was first used, and then the side margin, causing the text to become "overcrowded and blurred, this later on causing in the second part of the psalm an inextricable confusion from which the first was preserved"<ref>Souvay, Charles. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10670a.htm "Nahum"] The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. Retrieved 28 July 2008.</ref>  

Some Jewish scholars have observed that "the prophecy reads quite as if some one had tampered with its original order. It may be that this apparent mixture is due to modern logical literary strictures. But the following order, which seems to follow modern methods of thought, may be suggested: (1) ch. i. 1-14; (2) ch. iii. 1-17; (3) ch. ii. 1-5, 13, 6-12; (4) ch. iii. 18, 19; i. 15."<ref>Hirsch, Emil G., Price, Ira Maurice ''Book of Nahum'' (1901) The Jewish Encyclopedia.</ref>

Some Jewish scholars have observed that "the prophecy reads quite as if some one had tampered with its original order. It may be that this apparent mixture is due to modern logical literary strictures. But the following order, which seems to follow modern methods of thought, may be suggested: (1) ch. i. 1-14; (2) ch. iii. 1-17; (3) ch. ii. 1-5, 13, 6-12; (4) ch. iii. 18, 19; i. 15."<ref>Hirsch, Emil G., Price, Ira Maurice ''Book of Nahum'' (1901) The [[Jewish Encyclopedia]].</ref>

The book's composition is unusual in that while it contains "fierce denunciations of Judah's enemy" it lacks "many elements commonly ascribed to the Hebrew prophets, most particularly in any declaration of Judah's sin as seen in the light of covenant obligations."<ref>de Vries, S. J. ''The Acrostic of Nahum in the Jerusalem Liturgy'' Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 16, Fasc. 4 (October 1966), pp. 476-481.</ref>

The book's composition is unusual in that while it contains "fierce denunciations of Judah's enemy" it lacks "many elements commonly ascribed to the Hebrew prophets, most particularly in any declaration of Judah's sin as seen in the light of covenant obligations."<ref>de Vries, S. J. ''The Acrostic of Nahum in the Jerusalem Liturgy'' Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 16, Fasc. 4 (October 1966), pp. 476-481.</ref>