This study is designed as a commentary with a difference, where the reading of the prophet's travails is explored in the context of two wider themes: (1) the overt and highly sophisticated intertwining of Jonah's 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 author's time; and secondly, that this would have been evident to Jonah's first readers: the class of elite literati amongst the ruling cadre of late Persian or early Hellenistic Judaea.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Prologue
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The First Place: Nineveh
- Chapter 2 Jonah 1.1-3: The Call
- Chapter 3 Jonah 1.4-6: The Storm
- Chapter 4 Jonah 1.7-10: The Lottery
- Chapter 5 Jonah 1.11-16: An Ethical Dilemma
- Chapter 6 The Sea, the Sea
- Chapter 7 Maker of Heaven and Earth: Jonah and Genesis*
- Chapter 8 Jonah 1.17–2.10: An Appeal from the Abyss
- Chapter 9 Jonah, Exodus and Psalms *
- Chapter 10 Jonah 3.1-10: An Innocent in Nineveh
- Chapter 11 Jonah 4.1-11: On Being Elijah the Tishbite
- Chapter 12 The Lord’s Fondness for Livestock *
- Inconclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
- Index of Subjects
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