Signs of Jonah reading and rereading in ancient Yahud

Ben Zvi, Ehud 1951- (Author).

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.

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ISBN: 9780826462688
ISBN: 0826462685
ISBN: 0567448916 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780567448910 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 175 p.)
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Publisher: London ; New York : Sheffield Academic Press, c2003.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-166) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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