ENGL 260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Worship God, Intertestamental Period, Edom
14 Apr 2016
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Holofernes says that achior won"t see his face unil he wins. Achior sees holofernes" head ater judith has cut it of. Jonah: jonah is atypical because he doesn"t want to be god"s prophet and he runs away from him, his reasoning could be: Nineveh is the capital of assyria, so jonah didn"t want his enemies to be forgiven by god. He didn"t want to risk being a false prophet. The message didn"t menion repentance, it only said that nineveh would be overthrown in 40 days: this story shows that god cares about all his creaions, humour: Jonah went to sleep when the storm came. He ran away from an all-knowing god. Beasts had to wear sackcloth, fast, and repent: this story is more parable than propheic. Job: like judith and jonah, job is a chronological outlier, as it doesn"t it into the overarching narraive, this book is dissimilar to the other wisdom books, lesson:
