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There is generally no common material that binds together the works of the individual prophets that comprise the Twelve, but through Sweeney’s commentary they stand together as a single, clearly defined book among the other prophetic books of the Bible. The Book of the Twelve Prophets is a multifaceted literary composition that functions simultaneously in all Jewish and Christian versions of the...

Jonah 2:1–11 presents Jonah’s prayer to YHWH from the belly of a great fish that has swallowed him. The NRSV follows the LXX and Vulgate in renumbering Jon 2:1 as Jon 1:16 and grouping it together with the narrative material in the first chapter. The reason for such a change would be that Jon 2:1 is written in a narrative form which resembles that of Jon 1:1–16 whereas Jon 2:2–11, renumbered in NRSV, LXX, and Vulgate as Jon 2:1–10, contains
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