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A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Jonah is arguably just as jarring for us as it was for the ancients. Ninevah’s repentance, Jonah’s estrangement from God and the book’s bracing moral conclusion all pose unsettling questions for today’s readers. For biblical theologians, Jonah also raises tough questions regarding mission and religious conversion. Daniel Timmer embarks on a new reading of Jonah in order to secure its...

of God in the Scriptures is even more challenging than a detailed discussion of its historical context, since it requires that Jonah’s teaching on various topics be brought into relation with the rest of the Bible. This is especially the task of what is called ‘biblical theology’, not because other tasks and forms of theology are not biblical, but because this aspect of biblical interpretation tries to appreciate fully each biblical book’s unique contribution (diversity) while showing how it enriches
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