OT genres include historical narratives, genealogies, legal documents, prophecies, laments, songs, parables, and more. But what kind of genre is Jonah?12 Numerous generic names have been used to define the book.13 Among recent writers there has been a strong move away from referring to Jonah as either allegory or midrash. Now the preference is to classify Jonah as didactic fiction.14 Other scholars label Jonah as a story about a prophet,15 a parable,16 a legend,17 a didactic history,18 a philosophical