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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...

carries rhetorical effects that contribute to its memorability, so does ‘strangeness’ within a repertoire. Strangeness calls attention to its carrier and causes the book to stand out within the accepted repertoire of the readership.5 Prophetic books were used to educate or better socialize the communities that accepted them as authoritative texts. They encouraged particular sets of theological outlooks, norms, constructions of the past, and discouraged others. Memorable imagery and a good plot served
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