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Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud is unavailable, but you can change that!

Signs of Jonah emphasizes how the book of Jonah was received by its readers, and how it can help understanding of the culture and society of the time. Zvi focuses on how the audience would have read it, and even how they would have reread it, since books and stories are repeated and pondered time after time. He zeros in on indications throughout the text for how the text would have been read by...

The Book of Jonah1 (hereafter, ‘the book of Jonah’) has fascinated millions of people through generations. The book and its imagery have influenced such diverse fields as art, literature, liturgy and theology. The book has been used for innumerable purposes, from sermons to political debates to the writing of edifying children’s literature. Its imagery is among the best known of all biblical imagery. To be sure, Jonah has some of the charm associated with simple but fantastic
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