CHAPTER ONE: Introduction and History of Scholarship
Looking Forward - Definition of the Project - One Book or Twelve Books - History of Scholarship on the Diachronic Development of the Book of the Twelve - History of Scholarship on the Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany - Methodology - The Need for This Study
CHAPTER TWO: Sifting through the layers of the Twelve
The Formation of the Book of the Twelve - The Most Relevant Layers of the Twelve
CHAPTER THREE: Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany in the Persian Era. Reshaping of the Embedded Historiography of the Twelve-Nahum
The Literary-Historical Setting of Nahum - Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany in the Shaping of Nahum
CHAPTER FOUR: Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany in the Persian Era Reshaping of the Embedded Historiography of the Twelve-Habakkuk
The Literary-Historical Setting of the Book of Habakkuk - The Hymn of Habakkuk (Hab 3) - War and Woe: The Divine Warrior in Habakkuk's Woe Oracles - The Role of the Hymn and the Motifs of the Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany in the Shaping of Habakkuk - Nahum and Habakkuk and the Shaping of the Twelve
CHAPTER FIVE: Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany in the Persian Era Reshaping of the Embedded Historiography of the Twelve-The Book of the Four
Zephaniah and the Newly Minted Seventh Century Sub-Collection - Divine Warrior, Chaoskampf, and Theophany and the Reshaping of the Eighth Century Sub-Collection - The Book of the Four and the Evolving Book of the Twelve
CHAPTER SIX: The Twelve as a Response to the Shortcomings of Histories
Summary of Findings - Alternative Historiographies to the Long Sixth Century - The Contributions of This Study
