The Honeymoon Is Over: Jonah's Argument with God

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Garber, Zev | Copyright information

T. A. PERRY, The Honeymoon Is Over: Jonah s Argument with God (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006). Pp. xxxviii + 250. Paper $19.95.

Approaches to the Book of Jonah fall into four categories: (1) those that are informed by rabbinic tradition; (2) those that concentrate on specific problems of history, literary composition, style, language, redaction, and/or a combination thereof; (3) those that are scholarly yet have a semipopular appeal; and (4) those that present the strange adventure of...

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