Jonah: A Commentary (Biblia.com)

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In this volume of the Old Testament Library, Juliana Claassens delves into the theological questions posed by the book of Jonah in the context of a community making sense of their harrowing experiences of imperial domination. Attending to the historical and literary elements of the text, Claassens traces the narrative of Jonah as one that is steeped in the trauma inflicted by successive ancient...

[] . Scholars are divided as to whether to read MT 2:1—“Then YHWH appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights”—with chapter 1, numbering this verse 1:17 (so NRSVue, NIV, NKJV, NLT); or to follow the MT numbering and end the first chapter with 1:16 (so NJPS, NAB, NJB). If MT 2:1 is read as part of the first chapter, it brings the narrative focus at the chapter’s end onto Jonah’s deliverance from certain

Jonah 2:1–11

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