Through all of Jonah’s narrative, his reluctance and sheer defiance to God’s instruction gets him into some trouble with the protagonist along the way. This week, for example, I was assigned to read several books including the book of Jonah that I have read or heard so many times during the course of my life. I have discovered that the small details that I have always overlooked are packed with more meaning than I could have imagined. ![]() Many times, however, I will read a story for what seems like the thousandth time that I am quite frankly tempted to skip over because of my familiarity with it and realize the depth of the verses that I never noticed before. Other times I find the actual meaning of a certain word as I dive deeper into a topic to find research about it. Sometimes I sit down and read several chapters about a character that I did not know was so important in scripture. ![]() ![]() If I haven’t learned anything else from taking a Bible as Literature class, the one thing I know is the more I read the Bible, the more questions I have.
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