Sympathy for Jonah: Reflections on Humiliation, Terror and the Politics of Enemy-Love

by David Benjamin Blower, Ched Myers (Foreword by)

Overview

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 prophet's story has been trivialized as a quaint children's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498237284
Publisher:	Resource Publications
Publication date:	07/08/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	76
File size:	498 KB

About the Author

David Benjamin Blower is a writer, musician, and theological agitator from Birmingham, UK. He is a prolific recording artist and the author of Kingdom vs. Empire (2013).
Ched Myers is an activist theologian and New Testament expositor working with peace and justice issues. He is a popular educator, animating scripture and literacy in historic and current social change movements. Myers has published over a hundred articles and eight books, including Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus (Orbis, 1988). He and his partner Elaine Enns are ecumenical Mennonites who codirect Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries (www.bcm-net.org), based in the Ventura River Watershed of southern California in traditional Chumash territory.

Table of Contents

Foreword Ched Myers ix

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction xv

1 The Whale 1

2 The Boat to Nowhere 11

3 The City of Fishes 20

4 Trie Two Horses 29

5 The Interruption 43

Epilogue 56

Bibliography 59