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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...

because there are significant differences in the way people reread texts as opposed to their first reading of the same text, and all but the very first reading of a prophetic text were rereadings.25 Rereaders, and particularly those who meditate upon the text, are aware of the entire text even as they reread its first line. They may make connections between different units not only according to their sequence in the book, but in multidirectional and crosslinked paths. They are also likely to find
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