A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives 
Subtitle: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521791748
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Books of the Old Testament; Social theory; Religion; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible - Study - General; Religion - Biblical Studies; O.T.; O.T; History; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Bible.--O.T.--Jonah--Criticism and interpretation--History; Religion / Bible / Study / Old Testament; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - Old Testament; Bible; Bible.; Criticism and interpretation; Jonah
First sentence: Then Jonah stepped into the book of himself - and into the world of sermons, literature, historical anachronism, tall tales and fables.