Jonah: God’s Scandalous Mercy (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament | ZECOT)
Overview
Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Old Testament book, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
Jonah: God’s Scandalous Mercy analyzes and interpreting the Hebrew text of Jonah—allowing pastors to quickly grasp the big ideas of each passage and how they fit in Jonah and the Old Testament’s greater context. Kevin J. Youngblood demonstrates the many linguistic connections between words and expressions in the book of Jonah itself, as well as within many other passages in both the Old and New Testaments.
- Provides a careful analysis and interpretation of the text
- Examines the biblical text in its original context
- Provides verse-by-verse commentary
- Includes thorough introductions
Top Highlights
“Two problems intersect in the book of Jonah that prevent the prophet from fully enjoying and freely sharing divine mercy. The first is Jonah’s inability to reconcile YHWH’s concern for nations hostile to Israel with YHWH’s election of Israel. The second is Jonah’s inability to reconcile YHWH’s justice with YHWH’s mercy. The narrative’s conclusion reveals that the deeper problem is a distorted understanding of both divine election and divine justice, which precludes joyful participation in YHWH’s mercy.” (Page 37)
“First, the commissioning of a prophet to visit and to preach to a foreign nation was unprecedented in Hebrew prophecy” (Page 53)
“The fact that the same word describes both Jonah and Nineveh may indicate that there is less of a moral distinction between the prophet and the Assyrians than Jonah imagined. Furthermore, the fact that the same word also describes YHWH’s response to both Jonah’s sin and Assyria’s sin may indicate that Jonah and Assyria deserved the same fate.” (Page 40)
“YHWH’s purpose all along has been to correct the prophet’s misperception of the relationship between justice and mercy” (Page 156)
“As YHWH made clear to Ezekiel, a prophet who neglects his calling and fails to warn those who are on the verge of divine judgment is held responsible for their blood and thus incurs death himself (Ezek 33:6–8).” (Page 58)
- Title: Jonah
- Author: Kevin J. Youngblood
- Series: Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 192
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Jonah › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780310524465, 9780310282990, 9780310528357, 9780310571162, 0310524466, 0310282993, 0310528356, 0310571162
- Resource ID: LLS:HEARMSGSCR32JON
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:28:57Z
