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This latest volume in the Old Testament Survey Series is the fruit of some thirty years of teaching prophetic material. The goal has been to synthesize the best research and express it in a way which would be understandable and usable by those who might be exploring the Minor Prophets for the first time. The twelve authors of this collection preached and wrote at different periods ranging from...

The theological implications of Jonah’s commission should not be overlooked. Yahweh is represented here as the Lord of all nations who holds all the world morally accountable. “Their wickedness has come up before me.” Nineveh may be great, but God is greater, for he speaks from his heavenly throne. The language here is reminiscent of that which was used in Genesis of the wickedness of the cities destroyed by brimstone (cf. Gen 18:20–21). Nineveh was a second Sodom, the epitome of wickedness, which
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