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This work sets out the background world for the story of Jonah. Accepting the biblical book as a fictitious short story based on "real world" locations, the volume uses social science approaches to describe the imaginative world in which the action takes place. Since the story uses real places and recognizable persons to weave the narrative, at least three levels of perception are considered: the "real" world behind the book's references; the social and ideological constructs of the world; the imaginative world of the story itself. All of these are connected by and through the scribal author of the story. Geography, theology, human characters and natural flora and fauna are investigated. The models creatively used by humans to order their vision of the world can be shown to have been used as literary devices in constructing a story with totally fictitious historical citations as well as fabulous creatures and events that nonetheless conveys a message considered an insight into reality
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Lowell K. Handy is employed at the American Theological Library Association, Religion Index, Chicago. His doctorate degree is from the Divinity School of University of Chicago.
'An excellent introduction to Biblical stories. 'Jonah's World' deserves a place of honour on every reading list for courses on the book of Jonah. It poses the right questions and supplies lots of information to guide readers towards the ancient world.' --Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
'Useful for students and scholars as a unique reading of Jonah and an introductory exemplar of social-science readings of the Hebrew Bible.' --Religious Studies Review
'Deserves attention for the light it throws on the social world that produced the ever-fascinating story of Jonah.' --Review of Biblical Literature
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- Publication date2008
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- Number of pages230
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