A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture

From: Journal of Biblical Literature | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture, by Yvonne Sherwood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 321. $65.00/$25.00.

It was not long ago that one could be considered widely read and even cutting edge in biblical studies by rounding out one's form criticism (or tradition history or rhetorical criticism) with a smattering of narrative theory or folklore studies or what-have-you. But in the wake of Sherwood's most recent book (she is author also of the very fine study of Hosea 1-3, The Prostitute and the Prophet [Sheffield, 1996]), that ...

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