Digital Logos Edition
This volume contains 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.
“Too many features clearly point to a postexilic date.” (Page 76)
“For Jonah’s message, like Obadiah’s, is a message to a foreign people” (Page 76)
“What is being preached here is not hate of Edom; it is the punitive justice of God” (Page 22)
“The satirist mercilessly pillories the preposterous nature of Jonah’s behavior. ‘Satire annihilates—irony educates’” (Page 84)
“It is very much more probable that the book of Jonah is picking up Joel than that Joel is an echo of Jonah” (Page 77)