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The Message of Jonah: Presence in the Storm is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Jonah is mostly remembered for its oddity—a runaway prophet swallowed by a whale! But there must be more to the book than that. And indeed there is. For one thing, it is a book artfully constructed, with one chapter devoted to a psalm. It is a book that will reward careful reading and meditation. But more than that, we find, in the drama of Jonah, the charted course not just of this...

In approaching the psalm we must begin by acknowledging the change in literary genre from narrative to poetry. Here the narrative storyline modulates into poetic language. The psalm is more than a simple continuation of the narrative. As in other passages of Scripture, the change from narrative to poetry replays the events in a different key. The songs of Moses and Miriam in Exodus 15 rise out of the events of Exodus 14, sounding fresh depths
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