Signs of Jonah : reading and rereading in ancient Yehud / Ehud Ben Zvi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben Zvi, Ehud, 1951-

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 367.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 367

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign of Johan.

Bible. Jonah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this new and refreshing approach to the story, Ben Zvi starts with the premise that Jonah, like most books, was written to be read. He therefore concentrates on intended and unintended readership(s) of Jonah and the network of messages that they were likely to derive through their reading and rereading. He starts with the historical and social matrix of the production and reading of the book in antiquity, analyzes its self-critical approach and its metaprophetic character as a comment on the genre of prophetic books and on prophets. How does the historical fact of Nineveh's destruction acua

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 NINEVEH'S FATES; Chapter 3 JONAH 1.2, DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE AND THE FATES OF NINEVEH; Chapter 4 A TALE OF TWO JONAHS AND TWO ACCOUNTS; Chapter 5 JONAH, THE RUNAWAY SERVANT/SLAVE; Chapter 6 ATYPICALITY AND THE META-PROPHETIC CHARACTER OF THE BOOK OF JONAH; Chapter 7 JONAH, THE JERUSALEMITE LITERATI AND THEIR IMAGE OF THEMSELVES; Chapter 8 THE BOOK OF JONAH, ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM; Chapter 9 INFINITE BUT LIMITED DIVERSITY: A HEURISTIC, THEORETICAL FRAME FOR ANALYZING DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JONAH; Bibliography

Index of ReferencesIndex of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index.

ISBN:

9786611803018

9781281803016

1281803014

9780567448910

0567448916

OCLC:

276856173