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In this lucid and vividly written commentary on the book of Jonah, Phillip Cary offers a typological reading in which Jonah represents Israel as a blessing to the nations even in its disobedience, exile, and suffering. Christians receive this blessing precisely by identifying with Jonah/Israel through faith in Jesus, Israel’s Messiah. Readers interested in Jewish-Christian relations will value...

complete fools, we Christian readers should know this from our own experience—that the reborn self still contains much of the old Adam who was to be drowned in baptism. The story of sin and redemption does not end with rebirth. The idiom “great before God” can simply mean “very big” or (as in the King James Version) “exceeding great.” But it also suggests that Nineveh is somehow a big thing in God’s eyes, something that matters a great deal to him. Perhaps
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