The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
69. Jonah: How to Survive in the Belly of Hell?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Philippe Guillaume [+]
University of Berne
Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
Description
Jonah, the prophet as much as the book, is a total misfit in the Hebrew Bible. Tamed and misread, Jonah became a favorite figure in children’s Bibles, where God cares for little sheep. Adults have much to gain from rereading Jonah carefully in the text.