Jonah's Story, Our Challenge: Reading a Biblical Narrative in Today's Church and World

Karl Möller is a freelance writer and speaker with many years’ experience of teaching in university and theological education contexts. He is the author of The Song of Songs: Beautiful Bodies, Erotic Desire and Intoxicating Pleasure (2018), Reading Amos as a Bookâ·¯(2014), and A Prophet in Debate: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in the Book of Amos (2003).

"This thoughtful and far-reaching book emphasises the inherent plasticity of the book of Jonah and reveals its interpretative richness and diversity. Möller challenges us to re-evaluate our own preconceived ideas of what the book of Jonah is all about and guides us towards a fuller appreciation of the multiple and often mutually contradictory interpretations of the book." -- Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer

"This is an extraordinarily wide-ranging study of many possible ways of reading the book of Jonah, based on close knowledge of all the major types of biblical interpretation in use today—from now traditional ‘historical-critical’ approaches all the way to postcolonial and ecological readings. In the process, Karl Möller introduces the reader into the current scene in biblical studies in an attractive and approachable way. An ideal book for anyone beginning to study the Bible, but with much to teach even experienced readers who may be bewildered by the variety of methods now encountered, and who need a re-orientation. Jonah turns out to be an ideal text to try out various methods. Highly recommended! " -- John Barton