Shades of Green - or Grey? Towards an Ecological Interpretation of Jonah 4:6-11

Heerden, S. W. van

doi:10.17159/2312-3621/2017/v30n2a16

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“…Like West, Schalk Willem Van Heerden returns to the final verses of the book in order to navigate between two divergent approaches (Van Heerden 2017). He notes that approaches to the final verses of Jonah have typically split on whether the book’s message is ultimately about mercy and compassion or the sovereignty of the deity.…”

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“…Drawing on the work of Ehud Ben Zvi, he attempts to reconcile these two positions by invoking a double reading of the final verse that reads it both as a rhetorical question and an asseverative statement. Van Heerden explains, ‘An assertive reading of 4:11 emphasises the unlimited power of YHWH (reflecting royal sovereignty and power), while an interrogative reading highlights the boundlessness of the deity’s mercy, as experienced in the Jerusalem cult’ (Van Heerden 2017). In this account, Jonah is a product of Jerusalem’s elite literati able to reflect on their many intersecting positions as a relatively independent cultural group in Jerusalem, but also actively under the Persian administration’s thumb.…”

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Shades of Green - or Grey? Towards an Ecological Interpretation of Jonah 4:6-11

Abstract: Most scholars who have attempted ecological interpretations of the

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The Book of Jonah in Recent Research

The Book of Jonah in Recent Research

The Earth Mourns: Interconnectedness of Yahweh, People and Land in Jeremiah 23:10 and 15

Partnership Remembered: Erets Canaan as Co-Provider and Co-Enforcer in H

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