Continuing our study on Tragic Hero narratives in The Bible, this episode breaks down the story of Jonah. Listen to our background episode and that of King Saul here. Jonah, as a story in the greater context of The Bible, almost defies classification. As such, the narrative becomes a type of satire and a mirror in which the reader has to wrestle with some tough questions about the nature of God.

Topics Covered:

• Jonah as Satire
• "The Man of God" as a type of nobility
• The fatal flaw of self-righteousness
• The dangers of "Choseness" and "Giftedness"
• Ironies, Ironies and more Ironies
• Tiamat and Sumerian creation narratives.
• The Chaos waters
• Who is more powerful: Marduk-the violent warrior, or YHWH who speaks and the seamonster obeys?
• Jonah as the older brother in The Prodigal Son
• The tree and the worm, the tree and the serpent