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The Judgement of Jonah
Alastair G. Hunter
其他書名
Yahweh, Jerusalem and Nineveh
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-04-21
主題Religion / Biblical Studies / General
ISBN05676736269780567673626
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5QVqEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This study is designed as a commentary with a difference, where the reading of the prophet's travails is explored in the context of two wider themes: (1) the overt and highly sophisticated intertwining of Jonah's story with an impressively wide range of other biblical texts, often deployed in surprising ways; and (2) the clearly contrarian relationship between God and Jonah which has both vexed and intrigued scholars and lay readers alike for millennia.

Underpinning this reading is a twofold thesis: firstly, an argument that many of the puzzles inherent in the book of Jonah can be illuminated in the light of the idea that Nineveh was from the beginning a cipher for the Jerusalem of the author's time; and secondly, that this would have been evident to Jonah's first readers: the class of elite literati amongst the ruling cadre of late Persian or early Hellenistic Judaea.