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Simon provides a critical line-by-line commentary of the biblical text. It includes an extensive scholarly introduction, generous bibliographic and critical notes, and other explanatory material. Simon refers to traditional rabbinic commentaries, and the Mishna, Midrash and Talmud. His commentary also makes use of literary analysis, comparative Semitics, and evidence from modern archaeological...

Biblical narrative tends to prefer indirect expression over explicit ideological, ethical, or psychological statements. This tendency reaches its most radical manifestation in the Book of Jonah. As a result, it is particularly difficult to identify the central theme that unites all the elements of the story into a literary and conceptual whole. The broad variety of opinions on this subject—from the talmudic sages through modern commentaries
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