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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...
WHO I AM or (perhaps more accurately yet) I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE (Exod. 3:14). Like Exodus, the book of Jonah is a story showing us who he will be, and thus at bottom it is about the proclamation of the name of the LORD. Through all the vicissitudes of the narrative, one thing is certain: he will be the God who has always already taken sides with Israel. It is precisely this God and no other—the LORD God of Israel—who sends Jonah to Nineveh, to the people who will eventually destroy Israel, so that
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