That God himself gives the prophet instruction is the ultimate expression of the idea that the education in question here is truly the central and decisive education. Likewise, all other relations in this book are reduced to the most simple and obvious level. The relationships are pure and the characters taken as absolutes. This clearly exemplifies the generally valid proposition that the projection plane of the canonical coincides with the phenomenological layer of absolute experience. The object of this instruction is the idea of justice.
Education is a religious-prophetic category.
The inner structure of the Book of Jonah is entirely symmetrical, and the following symbolical representation, which is more than a simile, will show this. It contains an episode. This episode presents itself as the neighborhood of the critical point on a line that completes itself in the infinitude of what occurs. Gershom Scholem was a friend of Benjamin's and a prominent and influential scholar and critic. Eric J. Schwab is assistant professor of comparative literature at Yale University.