RT Article
T1 The Prophet of Second Chances: Jonah, Israel and Assyria and their Missed Opportunities for Redemption
JF Biblical interpretation
VO 29
IS 3
SP 263
OP 278
A1 Scolnic, Benjamin Edidin
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1760096490
AB The author of the Book of Jonah carefully selected the prophet Jonah ben Amittai, mentioned briefly in 2 Kings 14:23–29, to be the anti-hero of his tale. We may integrate knowledge from the historical context of this prophet’s lifetime in the eighth century bce to see structural parallels between the sinful actions, Y hwh ’s merciful responses to the actions, and the continued sinful actions, of Jonah, Israel and Assyria. Jonah becomes the prophet of second chances: for Israel, for himself, for the Assyrians, and then for the Judean audience, either in the Babylonian exile or thereafter, in a work written in agreement with the theological paradigm of the Deuteronomistic histories that attempt to demonstrate Y hwh ’s mercy.
K1 Kings
K1 Interpretation
K1 Prophets
K1 Exilic period
K1 Deuteronomistic History
K1 Jonah
DO 10.1163/15685152-00284P25