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Jonah: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, James Limburg examines Jonah with several questions in mind: How did the story originate? What is its place in the Bible? How did the New Testament understand the story? How has the story been understood in Judaism and in Islam? What might it mean for people today? And what does it have to say about God, about the human condition, and even about God and nature? In reviewing the...

articulate traditional teaching about God (1:9; 4:2), a saying about idols (2:8), and in a number of declarations about the Lord in Jonah’s prayer (2:2a, 7a, 9b). What is said about God in these statements should then be understood in the context of the Jonah story as a whole. 1. The book of Jonah asserts that God has created, controls, and cares for the natural world. Jonah’s confession at the midpoint of the storm scene in 1:9 speaks of the Lord God’s work of making the sea and the dry land, that
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