Jonah’s Sailors and Their Lot Casting: A Rhetorical-Critical Observation

Several considerations suggest that the sailors’ lot casting in Jonah 1 is unusual and meant to be both surprising and literarily delightful. The most important of these is the correspondence between the sailors and the Ninevites within the book’s rhetorical structure. This correspondence suggests t...

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Main Author: Strawn, Brent A. 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters 2010
In: Biblica
Year: 2010, Volume: 91, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-76
Further subjects:B Jonah 3
B Ninevites
B Jonah 1
B Jonah
B Sailors
B ritual act
B Rhetoric
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