the story of jonah is in the book prophets.
what book is the story of jonah in?
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section::::narrative.





























unlike the other prophets, the book of jonah is almost entirely narrative, with the exception of the poem in chapter 2. the actual prophetic word against nineveh is given only in passing through the narrative. as with any good narrative, the story of jonah has a setting, characters, a plot, and themes. it also relies heavily on such literary devices as irony.





























section::::outline.





























bullet::::1. jonah flees his mission (chapters 1–2)





























bullet::::1. jonah's commission and flight (1:1–3)





























bullet::::2. the endangered sailors cry to their gods (1:4–6)





























bullet::::3. jonah's disobedience exposed (1:7–10)





























bullet::::4. jonah's punishment and deliverance (1:11–2:1;2:10)
book of jonah
john calvin and john hooper regarded the book of jonah as a warning to all those who might attempt to flee from the wrath of god. while luther had been careful to maintain that the book of jonah was not written by jonah, calvin declared that the book of jonah was jonah's personal confession of guilt. calvin sees jonah's time inside the fish's belly as equivalent to the fires of hell, intended to correct jonah and set him on the path of righteousness. also unlike luther, calvin finds fault with all the characters in the story, describing the sailors on the boat as "hard and iron-hearted, like cyclops", the penitence of the ninevites as "untrained", and the king of nineveh as a "novice". hooper, on the other hand, sees jonah as the archetypal dissident and the ship he is cast out from as a symbol of the state. hooper deplores such dissidents, decrying: "can you live quietly with so many jonasses? nay then, throw them into the sea!" in the eighteenth century, german professors were forbidden from teaching that the book of jonah was anything other than a literal, historical account.
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