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The prophetic books Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah are brief but powerful. They comfort us with the assurance that, when nothing in this life makes sense, God is still in control. They toughen our faith in the face of the world’s ugly realities. And they reveal the complexities of humans in relation to God. Jonah ran from his divine commission. Habakkuk questioned God concerning his ways....

with Jonah-like themes) portrays a rebellious puppet who is swallowed by a whale. The moral fairy tale of “the sufferings of the disobedient” plays out a warning similar to Calvin’s reading of Jonah.4 The characters of both Jonah and Pinocchio are portrayed as negative moral examples, whose behavior and attitudes we are to avoid in order to thwart suffering. The purpose of Jonah is to make us obedient through the fear of Yahweh. A related vein of interpretation has been to see Jonah as an allegory
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