Signs of Jonah

by Ehud Ben Zvi

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 and analyses its self-critical approach and its metaprophetic character as a comment on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826462685
• ISBN13: 9780826462688
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.7"