vol. 39, Issue #2

Online Journal Article:text Analysis And The Genre Of Jonah (Part 1) - Ernst R. Wendland * Jets 39/2 (June 1996) 191–206

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/39/39-2/39-2-pp191-206_JETS.pdf

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TEXT ANALYSIS AND THE GENRE OF JONAH (PART 1)
ERNST R. WENDLAND*
JETS 39/2 (June 1996) 191–206

Excerpt:
JONAH AS A GENERIC CRUX INTERPRETUM
The little book of Jonah confronts Bible commentators and critics alike
with a rather large hermeneutical crux. This problem does not directly
concern certain constituent passages (though there are also several diffculties
in this regard) but rather the text as a whole: How are we to interpret it?
The answer to this question is dependent upon how we respond to another,
related query: What literary genre does the book of Jonah exhibit or exemplify?
That question will be addressed in the following section. But why all the fuss?
Is it not obvious to even the most unsophisticated reader that
the text is a simple story? --from the first page of the article