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The Judgement of Jonah: Yahweh, Jerusalem and Nineveh

The Judgement of Jonah: Yahweh, Jerusalem and Nineveh

Hunter, Alastair G.

Hardcover

Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 642

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0567673618
ISBN13: 9780567673619
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 19 2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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