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    Sympathy for Jonah
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    The story of Jonah is sacred to all three Abrahamic faiths and remains a recognizable legend even in the most secularized corners of the West.And yet the maritime prophets story has been trivialized as a quaint childrens tale, his character has been blasted by unsympathetic commentators, and even his alleged tomb has now been destroyed by Islamic State militants who, in 2014, took the city of Mosul on the Nineveh Plains.Now that Nineveh is once again in the grip of tyrannical violence and communities across the West and the Middle East are deep in a time of discord and soul-searching, we might do well to recover the story of Jonah, a guiding light, who marches into the very heart of empire and confronts it with the radical politics of the kingdom of God, even as his own certainties are shaken to the core.David Blower has written a marvelous reflection on what may be the Bibles most subversive and misunderstood story. Not only are his insights incisive and needed, his writing is a delight to read. --Brian D. McLaren, author/speaker/activist I picked it up, started to read it and couldnt stop. . . . Its an irresistible, fanciful, terrifying book: brilliant, beautiful, and colourful, but brutal, awful, and confronting. . . . This is The Gospel According To Jonah for today.--Dave Andrews, Author of Plan Be, and Christi-AnarchyElegaic in its writing and prophetic in its message, Blowers study brings the ancient Biblical myth of Jonah back to life with fresh relevance for our times, especially so with Jonahs city so much in the news, and for the same reasons as before: that to say, Nineveh, or Mosul in northern Iraq.--Alastair McIntosh, Professor, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, author of Soil and Soul and Spiritual ActivismIdentifying the empire--not the big fish--as the real beast in the book, this powerful and poetic re-telling of the Jonah story brings a familiar tale to life in fresh ways, and invites readers to face t
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