Jonah - A Quest to Identify its Genre

Considering the brevity of Jonah, or perhaps because of it, it is remarkable that the literary genre of the book remains an enigma. This is not the result of a lack of attempts to classify it. Most scholars agree that Jonah is a narrative, but what type of narrative? This article proposes that Jonah...

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Subtitles:Festschrift for Gert Prinsloo
Main Author: Potgieter, J. H. (Author)
Contributors: Prinsloo, Gert T. M. (Honoree)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Unisa Press 2022
In: Journal for semitics
Year: 2022, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-12
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jonah / Literary genre / Story / Bible. Könige 1. 19,1-18
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B thanksgiving song
B motif(s)
B Comparison
B Prinsloo, Gert T. M.
B Festschrift
B Genre
B literary form
B mercy formula
B Type-scene
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Summary:Considering the brevity of Jonah, or perhaps because of it, it is remarkable that the literary genre of the book remains an enigma. This is not the result of a lack of attempts to classify it. Most scholars agree that Jonah is a narrative, but what type of narrative? This article proposes that Jonah is a narrative about a specific episode in a prophet’s life, namely his flight from an assignment. To verify the possibility of such a literary category, one must find similar incidents in other known prophets’ lives and compare Jonah with those episodes. Consequently, a comparison is made with the story of Moses in Exodus and Elijah in 1 Kings 19.
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/12282