For For readers of Scripture who want a short theological reading of Jonah; not for a reader wanting a technical commentary with Hebrew philology.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
4 of 5strongly recommended
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
A short theological reading of Jonah as a story of vocation, judgment and grace. The first of his biblical studies, and one of the easiest.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential3 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Ellul's study of the book of Jonah, first published in Paris in 1952 in the Cahiers bibliques de Foi et Vie. It is a theological reading rather than a critical commentary: Ellul reads Jonah's flight, the storm, the fish, Nineveh and the closing argument with God as a single account of vocation, judgment and grace, and he reads it christologically, in the line of Karl Barth. It is the first of his biblical studies, which later included 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes, Revelation and Romans 9–11. Geoffrey W. Bromiley translated it as The Judgment of Jonah (Eerdmans, 1971).
The Judgment of Jonah
by Jacques Ellul
For For readers of Scripture who want a short theological reading of Jonah; not for a reader wanting a technical commentary with Hebrew philology.
Should I read this?
A short theological reading of Jonah as a story of vocation, judgment and grace. The first of his biblical studies, and one of the easiest.
How it proceeds
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Ellul's study of the book of Jonah, first published in Paris in 1952 in the Cahiers bibliques de Foi et Vie. It is a theological reading rather than a critical commentary: Ellul reads Jonah's flight, the storm, the fish, Nineveh and the closing argument with God as a single account of vocation, judgment and grace, and he reads it christologically, in the line of Karl Barth. It is the first of his biblical studies, which later included 2 Kings, Ecclesiastes, Revelation and Romans 9–11. Geoffrey W. Bromiley translated it as The Judgment of Jonah (Eerdmans, 1971).
Catalog ID
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