accounts like those centering on the activity of Elijah and Elisha. A prophetic account is a third person narrative that recounts the notable exploits of one of YHWH’s prophets typically for the purpose of demonstrating the prophet’s exemplary religious devotion, extolling his ethical behavior, or exploring a divine attribute of YHWH.39 In the case of the book of Jonah the emphasis of the prophetic account falls on YHWH’s attribute of mercy expressed toward a hostile people. The book, however, employs