Tossing Jonah again: Sea of Readings

Abstract

Word for word, Jonah has plummeted into the whitewash of more methodological waves than has any of the other prophets (biblical or otherwise). Waves of socalled traditional, mainline, experimental and minoritized approaches have over the years encircled Jonah. And each time, Jonah has surfaced unto a wavering “afterlife” (to borrow Yvonne Sherwood’s image). In this issue of Bible and Critical Theory Jonah is again tossed, into another sea of readings. Splash!