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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...

clear: Do not try to run away from the Lord! The Lord, however, continued to work with Jonah, rescuing him, giving him another chance, putting up with his petulance, patiently trying to instruct him. The point is clear: like a parent’s love for a child, even a child who runs away, God’s love for one of God’s own people never gives up (Hosea 11). However, these traditional attributes of God function in a fresh and nontraditional way in Jonah 4:2. God is described as compassionate and merciful, slow
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