Jonah (1993)

In this volume, now available in a

new casebound edition, James

Limburg examines Jonah with several

questions in mind: How did the story

originate? What is its place in the

Bible? How did the New Testament

understand the story? How has the

story been understood in Judaism and

in Islam? What might t mean for people

today? And what does it have to say

about God, about the human

condition, and even about God and

nature? In reviewing the book, Limburg

gives special attention to the many

contributions of artists, musicians,

painters, and sculptors who, he says,

may have been the best interpreters of

Jonah. He also keeps in mind literary

dimension of the text and takes great

care to follow the divisions of the book

as they were defined by Jewish scribal

tradition.

The Old

Testament Library provides fresh

and authoritative treatments of

important aspects of Old Testament

study through commentaries and

general surveys. The Contributors are

scholars of international standing.