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Jonah's world : social science and the reading of prophetic story / Lowell K. Handy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Handy, Lowell K., 1949-
- Series:
- Bible world (London, England)
- Bible world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Jonah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of Jonah, often read as a simple children's story, is a multifaceted and elaborate narrative with serious intent. Treating the biblical book as a fictitious story based on real locations and recognizable persons, Jonah's World examines the background to the story and draws on social science approaches to describe its imaginative world. The book explores the geography, theology, myth, human characters, natural landscape, and the ideology behind the story to uncover a vision of reality shaped by literary technique. Jonah's World will be invaluable to students and scholars seeking a new approach to the reading of this colourful text.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A scribe's eye view
- An imaginary real world
- The divine realm
- The human dimension
- An unnatural nature
- A moral universe?
- Reality as fiction
- The story once more.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [132]-199) and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-49126-2
- 1-315-71121-4
- 1-84553-123-X
- 1-317-49127-0
- 1-84553-747-5
- 9781315711218
- OCLC:
- 898104121
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