JONAH AND THE HUMAN CONDITION: Life and Death in Yahweh’s World

Title Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nFigures\nPreface\nAbbreviations\nPart 1: Perspectives on the Human Condition in the Hebrew Bible\n	Chapter 1: Introduction: Characterizing the Human Condition\n		1 Biblical answers to “What is the human being?”\n		2 Are humans born for trouble and toil?\n		3 Comparing biblical and Greek answers to “What is the human being?”\n		4 Biblical and modern conceptions of the human condition: Part One of this study\n		5 Jonah’s human condition: Part Two of this study\n	Chapter 2: Pessimism and the Human Condition in the Hebrew Bible\n		1 What exactly is “pessimism”?\n		2 Are Qoheleth’s pronouncements on death and injustice pessimistic?\n		3 Pessimistic divine and human leaders in Deuteronomy 31\n		4 Pessimism among the prophets: When is death better than life?\n		5 Conclusion\n	Chapter 3: At Sea in Yahweh’s World: Navigating the Human Condition in the Hebrew Bible\n		1 The “Life is a sea voyage” metaphor\n		2 Images of enclosure and exposure in Jonah 1–2\n		3 Images of enclosure and exposure in the Psalms\n		4 Storms at sea in Psalm 107 and the issue of theodicy\n		5 Death—and birth—as shipwreck\n		6 Coping with the storms of life in Yahweh’s world\n		7 Conclusion\n	Chapter 4: Reading about Death in Biblical Narrative\n		1 The psychology of reading about death\n		2 Reading about death and resuscitation in 2 Kings 13\n		3 Power and immortality: Exalting Elisha’s bones\n		4 Readers’ fear of death and the prospect of an afterlife\nPart 2: Jonah and the Human Condition in Yahweh’s World\n	Chapter 5: Jonah as a Literary Character\n		1 Psychological judgments on Jonah’s character\n		2 What we are, and are not, told about Jonah’s situation and character\n		3 “Jonah complexes” and our own\n	Chapter 6: The Plot of Jonah, Childhood Crises, and the Perils of Adulthood\n		1 Fears of being swallowed and eaten\n		2 Fantasies of being swallowed and killing the monster from within\n		3 Jonah and other mature ancient heroes\n		4 Yahweh’s character and his relationship with Jonah\n	Chapter 7: Conclusion: Living and Dying in the Hebrew Bible\n		1 Orwell’s “essential Jonah act”\n		2 Life and death “keeping house together”: The end of the book of Jonah\n		3 Vulnerability and the human condition\n		4 Weltende? Visions of death, exposure, and enclosure in Jeremiah and Qoheleth\n		5 My death in Yahweh’s world\n	Bibliography\n	Index of Ancient Sources\n	Index of Authors