{
  "id": "dict_004065",
  "term": "Obadiah",
  "slug": "obadiah",
  "letter": "O",
  "entry_type": "biblical_book",
  "entry_family": "book",
  "depth_profile": "deep",
  "short_definition": "Obadiah is a short prophetic book that announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against Jacob.",
  "simple_one_line": "This book is a short prophetic book that announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against Jacob.",
  "tooltip_text": "Obadiah: short prophetic book; announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against...",
  "aliases": [
    "Obadiah, Book of"
  ],
  "scripture_references": [],
  "original_language_terms": [],
  "related_entries": [],
  "see_also": [
    "Covenant",
    "Judgment",
    "Restoration"
  ],
  "lede_intro": "Obadiah is best read as a coherent biblical book whose historical setting, literary design, and canonical role shape how its message should be understood.",
  "at_a_glance_definition": "Obadiah is a short prophetic book that announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against Jacob. It should be read as a coherent book whose setting, structure, and canonical role shape its message.",
  "at_a_glance_key_points": [
    "Obadiah should be read as a whole book with its own historical setting, literary design, and canonical placement.",
    "Its major themes are best traced through the book's structure and major movements rather than by isolating favorite verses.",
    "A good summary explains how this book advances the Bible's larger storyline and theological message."
  ],
  "description_academic_short": "Obadiah is a short prophetic book that announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against Jacob. The book should be read as a coherent whole whose setting, structure, and canonical location shape its theological contribution.",
  "description_academic_full": "Obadiah is a short prophetic book that announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against Jacob. Obadiah should be read as a coherent biblical book whose historical setting, literary design, and canonical location shape its message. Responsible summary work traces its major themes through the book itself and explains how it advances the Bible's larger storyline and theology.",
  "background_biblical_context": "Obadiah belongs to the Book of the Twelve and should be read within Israel's prophetic witness to covenant violation, judgment on sin, the call to repentance, and the hope of restoration under the LORD's reign.",
  "background_historical_context": "As a minor prophetic book, Obadiah reflects a real historical setting and addresses concrete covenantal, pastoral, or prophetic needs. Its literary form is part of its meaning, so genre should guide how its claims are read and applied.",
  "background_jewish_ancient_context": "",
  "key_texts_primary": [
    "Obad. 1-4",
    "Obad. 10-18",
    "Obad. 19-20",
    "Obad. 21"
  ],
  "key_texts_secondary": [
    "Gen. 25:23",
    "Jer. 49:7-22",
    "Amos 9:11-12",
    "Luke 1:51-53"
  ],
  "original_language_note": "",
  "theological_significance": "Obadiah matters theologically because it speaks the word of the Lord into judgment on Edom, vindication of Zion, binding judgment and hope within covenant history.",
  "philosophical_explanation": "",
  "interpretive_cautions": "Do not reduce Obadiah to coded prediction or social commentary alone, because its oracles and imagery address judgment on Edom, vindication of Zion as the word of the Lord to a covenant people.",
  "major_views_note": "Readers of Obadiah may debate historical setting, Edom references, and the scope of Zion restoration, but the controlling task is to read the final prophetic witness in light of judgment on Edom, vindication of Zion and its covenantal burden.",
  "doctrinal_boundaries": "A faithful summary of Obadiah should stay close to its burden concerning judgment on Edom, vindication of Zion, letting prophetic warning and hope control the reading.",
  "practical_significance": "For readers today, Obadiah calls readers to repent, fear the Lord, and hope in his rule as it addresses judgment on Edom, vindication of Zion.",
  "meta_description": "Obadiah is a short prophetic book that announces judgment on Edom for pride and violence against Jacob.",
  "public_url": "/companion-bible-dictionary/obadiah/",
  "json_url": "/companion-bible-dictionary/data/dictionary/obadiah.json",
  "final_disposition": "PUBLISH_CANONICAL"
}