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The Twelve Prophets, Volumes 1 & 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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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