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The message of Jonah : presence in the storm / Rosemary A. Nixon.

By: Series: Bible speaks todayPublication details: Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, c 2003.Description: 220 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 083082426X
  • 9780830824267
  • 0851118984
  • 9780851118987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 224/.9207 21
LOC classification:
  • BS1605.53 .N59 2003
Other classification:
  • 11.41
Online resources:
Contents:
The literary genre of Jonah -- A prophet protests (1:1-3) -- Storm at sea (1:4-8) -- The prophet speaks (1:9-16) -- Alive or dead? (1:17-2:10) -- Jonah calls upon the Lord (2:1-10) -- A persistent God (3:1-10) -- A prophet's anger and the Lord's pity (4:1-11) -- The repentance of Nineveh and the people of God.
Summary: Jonah is a book artfully constructed, with one chapter devoted to a psalm. It is a book that will reward careful reading and meditation. But more than that, in the drama of Jonah we find charted the course not just of this angular prophet but of Isreal's attitude toward its most despised neighbor in the Mediterranean world. Jonah refuses to answer God's call to go and proclaim judgement because he knows God is just the kind of God who respond in mercy and grace should the Assyrians repent. Jonah will have no part of it--until he is compelled. And even then he pities himself.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-14).

The literary genre of Jonah -- A prophet protests (1:1-3) -- Storm at sea (1:4-8) -- The prophet speaks (1:9-16) -- Alive or dead? (1:17-2:10) -- Jonah calls upon the Lord (2:1-10) -- A persistent God (3:1-10) -- A prophet's anger and the Lord's pity (4:1-11) -- The repentance of Nineveh and the people of God.

Jonah is a book artfully constructed, with one chapter devoted to a psalm. It is a book that will reward careful reading and meditation. But more than that, in the drama of Jonah we find charted the course not just of this angular prophet but of Isreal's attitude toward its most despised neighbor in the Mediterranean world. Jonah refuses to answer God's call to go and proclaim judgement because he knows God is just the kind of God who respond in mercy and grace should the Assyrians repent. Jonah will have no part of it--until he is compelled. And even then he pities himself.

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