The Judgement of JonahAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 19 May 2022
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This study is designed as a commentary with a difference, where the reading of the prophets travails is explored in the context of two wider themes: (1) the overt and highly sophisticated intertwining of Jonahs story with an impressively wide range of other biblical texts, often deployed in surprising ways; and (2) the clearly contrarian relationship between God and Jonah which has both vexed and intrigued scholars and lay readers alike for millennia.Underpinning this reading is a twofold thesis: firstly, an argument that many of the puzzles inherent in the book of Jonah can be illuminated in the light of the idea that Nineveh was from the beginning a cipher for the Jerusalem of the authors time; and secondly, that this would have been evident to Jonahs first readers: the class of elite literati amongst the ruling cadre of late Persian or early Hellenistic Judaea.
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