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Jonah: God’s Scandalous Mercy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Old Testament book, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they...

figure. Anderson has convincingly argued that the flood narrative is structured as a palistrophe (an extended chiasm), the centerpiece of which is the statement “Then God remembered Noah” (Gen 8:1).46 In the light of this comparison, Jonah’s statement seems ironic because it is an inversion of the flood narrative’s key phrase. Jonah’s emphasis is misplaced. The salient point is not that he remembered YHWH, but that YHWH remembered him. Second, in the context of prayer the faithful nearly always confess
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