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Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story

Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 18 (2010) 52-86 55 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156851508X378968 Jonah’s World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story. By Lowell K. Handy. London: Equinox, 2007. Pp. xvi + 214.  e author is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School and is currently employed at the American  eological Library Association in Chicago.  e present volume is published in the “Bible World” series and fi ts with its mission statement to “[explore] the social world that produced the biblical texts.” Jonah, for Handy, is a fi ctional short story written by a trained scribe of the Jeru- salem elite; his intended audience was “others who were of the similar background as himself ” (13).  is speculative statement is repeated scores of times in the book (see, for instance, the Index under “Elites” and “Scribes” among others).  e author more than implies that Jonah was written to please aesthetically a highly selected milieu looking for sophisticated entertainment. Here starts a regrettable confusion. First, did an alphabet of twenty two characters (not hieroglyphic pictograms or cuneiform patterns) really demand that the tale must be written by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biblical Interpretation Brill

Jonah's World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story

Biblical Interpretation , Volume 18 (1): 55 – Jan 1, 2010

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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0927-2569
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1568-5152
DOI
10.1163/156851508X378968
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Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 18 (2010) 52-86 55 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156851508X378968 Jonah’s World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story. By Lowell K. Handy. London: Equinox, 2007. Pp. xvi + 214.  e author is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School and is currently employed at the American  eological Library Association in Chicago.  e present volume is published in the “Bible World” series and fi ts with its mission statement to “[explore] the social world that produced the biblical texts.” Jonah, for Handy, is a fi ctional short story written by a trained scribe of the Jeru- salem elite; his intended audience was “others who were of the similar background as himself ” (13).  is speculative statement is repeated scores of times in the book (see, for instance, the Index under “Elites” and “Scribes” among others).  e author more than implies that Jonah was written to please aesthetically a highly selected milieu looking for sophisticated entertainment. Here starts a regrettable confusion. First, did an alphabet of twenty two characters (not hieroglyphic pictograms or cuneiform patterns) really demand that the tale must be written by

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

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