ISBN:
9780567673619
,
9780567706508
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 272 Seiten
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Bibel
;
Intertextualität
;
Gottesbeziehung
;
Jonah / (Biblical prophet)
;
Bible / Jonah / Commentaries
;
God (Christianity)
;
Dieu (Christianisme)
;
Bibel Jona
;
Gottesbeziehung
;
Intertextualität
Abstract:
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.
