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==Provenance==
==Provenance==
The date of authorship is placed between 663 B.C. and 612 B.C. based on the reference to the fall of Thebes, believed to have occurred in 663 BC. Nineveh fell to the combined forces of the Medes, Babylonians, and Scythians in 612 BC. The Oxford Annotated Bible places the date of writing to somewhere between 626 and 612 B.C. and most modern scholars believe 612 B.C. to be the correct date.
==To whom written==
==To whom written==