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Subject(s)

• Bible Obadiah—Commentaries [Browse]
• Bible Jonah—Commentaries [Browse]

Related work(s)

Wolff, Hans Walter. Obadja und Jona. English [Browse]

Summary note

Professor Wolff's clear and thorough orientation to the collection of oracles in the book of Obadiah and to the narrative art of the book of Jonah. Differently, both prophets provide an answer to what the interaction is between the whole of humanity God has created, and His people in particular. - Publisher.

Notes

Translation of: Obadja und Jona.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The prophet Obadiah
• The position of the book in the Canon
• The date of Obadiah
• Obadiah's function
• The development of the book of Obadiah
• Obadiah's message
• Literature
• The crimes of Edom (vv. 1-14, 15b)
• Deliverance on Mount Zion (vv. 15a, 16-21)
• The prophet Jonah
• The book of Jonah in the Canon
• The date of composition
• Literary growth
• The narrative character
• The narrator's guiding concern
• The strain of disobedience (1:1-3)
• Excursus : Tarshish
• The missionary fruits of a flight from God (1:4-16)
• Excursus : stq
• Swallowed and vomited up (2:1-3:3a [1:17-3:3a])
• Excursus : Structure and rhythm of the psalm of Jonah
• Even the cattle repent (3:3b-10)
• Jonah complains of God's compassion (4:1-11).

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Other title(s)

• Obadiah & Jonah
• Bible. Obadiah
• Bible. Jonah

ISBN

080662244X

LCCN

^^^86022256^

OCLC

14187100

RCP

H - S

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