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Eugene F. Roop focuses on three of the Bible's most compelling short stories, Ruth, Jonah, and Esther. He draws attention to distinctive narrative characteristics of these three magnificent dramas. Such scrutiny opens new vistas of interpretation that can undergird the faith, life, and neighborly relations of the church. Each narrative features intense interaction among the characters and, in...

coherence of God’s world (Heschel, 2:67). Justice provides fairness and coherence in the world. Divine compassion can undermine that coherence and thus sometimes even feel unfair. Which do we prefer? Many readers conclude that the narrator invites us to side with God over Jonah (Ackerman, 1987:242). That may be true in part, but this ought not to override the fact that the story ends with a question and not with a statement. Only Nahum has a similar
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