TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perry, T A
AU  - Perry,T A
TI  - The Honeymoon Is Over:  Jonah`s Argument With God
SN  - 9781565636729
U1  - BC47 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Peabody
PB  - Hendrickson Publishers
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Part one  The ocean experience: Jonah 1-2  1. Going down under: Jonah 1 .....3  Jonah`s suicide ......3  Assisted suicide: Jonah and the sailors ....7  2. Jonah`s prayers and near-death experience: Jonah 2 .....13  The issues .....13  The preamble(2:1-2) ....13  The text of the psalm ....20  Part two   The dry-land experiments: Jonah 3-4  3. The ninevites: Jonah 3 ......41  Back to square one? .....41  The ninevites and their animals ......45  The repricve .....48  Jonah and the ninevites: A tale of two cities ....50  4 East of the city: Jonah 4 ......52  Jonah`s joy or surviving betrayal .....52  The succah that Jonah built: The merit system ....54  God`s kikayan trick: The gift system .....56  The kikayan episode in the context of Elijah`s epiphany .....58  Part three  The theology of the book of Jonah   5. The book of love ......77  East of the city: le desert d`amour ....77  The opening scene ....80  ERrotic clues and vocabulary ....85  Life at the center: love canopies ....94  Jonah`s trances: Provoking divine responsiveness .....98  The kiss of death .....100  Fear and love .....102  6. The book of prayer ....109  Fear-prayer ....109  Jonah`s psalms: prayer collage ....110  Assisted sucide, again ....111  The purported displacement of Jonah 4:5 .....113  Thanksgiving or confession ...115  The place of prayer ....118  7. The book of repentance .....120  The sailors and the ninevites ....120  The god of perhaps ...122  Jonah ...125  The narrator et al .....126  8. The book of prophecy ....129  The theologies of mere existence and true love ......130  Jonah`s knowledge of god ......137  The structure of Jonah 4 ......142  Not rereading Jonah and the theology of post- and non-repentance .....148  The sign of the kikavan ......152  Omni-presence: A morality and esthetics of transience ....159  Jonah the prophet ....163  The double ending, oracular ambiguity, and prophetic consciousness .....166  Part four   New literary perspectives  9. Life on the edge 1: A pastoral perspective .....175  Pastoral landscape, common misanthropy ...177  Pastoral pedagogy ....179  10. Life on the edge II: A Tale of the fantastic ......183  Jonah`s god : Tricker? Naturalist ? .....186  The mediating narrator ....188  Jonah the magician ....192  Interrogation ....195  A modern fantastical reading .....197  A rabbinic fantastical readings ......198  Conclusions ....201  The ongoing dialogue ....201  Israel and the nations .....204  Concluding midrash 1 .....206  Concluding midrash II .....206  Excurses ....209  Excursus 1: On reading jonah .....209  Excursus 2: Better-than .....213
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