when was nahum written

Most scholars date the writing of the book of Nahum to sometime between about 663 and 612 BC, with many suggesting around 650 BC as a reasonable estimate.

Why that time period?

• Nahum mentions the fall of Thebes (No-Amon) in Egypt as a past event, and that happened in 663 BC.

• The book predicts the fall of Nineveh, which historically occurred in 612 BC, so the prophecy must be before that date if taken as genuine prediction.

So, when people ask “when was Nahum written” , a common, concise answer is: in the 7th century BC, likely around 650 BC, sometime between the fall of Thebes (663 BC) and the fall of Nineveh (612 BC).

Some modern scholars propose later dates (even as late as the Maccabean period, 2nd century BC), but these are minority views compared to the 7th‑century BC consensus.

TL;DR: Nahum was most likely written in the mid‑600s BC, between 663 and 612 BC, often approximated as “around 650 BC.”

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