Jonah, the "rather unusual prophet"

FOR YOM KIPPUR: The Book of Jonah: God and Humanity Don’t Understand Each Other (Susan Niditch, TheTorah.com).

Jonah is an idiosyncratic prophet who disobeys, doesn’t really repent, and even gets angry with YHWH. While later interpretations seek to explain Jonah’s problematic behavior, in the book, it is Jonah who is confounded by YHWH’s actions.

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