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Jonah analyzes and interpreting the Hebrew text of Jonah—allowing pastors to quickly grasp the big ideas of each passage and how they fit in Jonah and the Old Testament’s greater context. Kevin J. Youngblood demonstrates the many linguistic connections between words and expressions in the book of Jonah itself, as well as within many other passages in both the Old and New Testaments.

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
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