Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Chiastic reverse parallel: Genesis 1-11 and Jonah



The Chiastic reverse parallel: Genesis 1-11 and Jonah
Notice that the general order of events in Jonah reflects a reverse order of Genesis 1-11.


Genesis
Jonah
Dispersion
Fleeing to Tarshish
Coming out of Mesopotamia according to God's will Babel/Shinar:11:1-32
Not going to Mesopotamia despite God's will: 1:1-3
Abram, the Hebrew: 14:13
Nineveh: 1:2 Hebrew: 1:9
Flood mabbûl: 6-9
Flood, nāhār:1:4-15
Ship of salvation: Dove: :10-12
Ship of tribulation:1:5
Wind passed over earth: 8:1
Waves passed over Jonah: 2:4
Tĕhôm bursts forth: 7:11
Tĕhôm surrounds: 2:6
Tops of the mountains: 8:5
Bottoms of the mountains: 2:7
God remembered Noah: 8:1
Jonah remembered the Lord: 2:8
End of 40 days ... 8:6
In 40 days ... 3:4
Cain's anger and Tôb in causative stem: 4:7, 94
Jonah's anger and Tôb in causative stem:4:4
Driven out of God's face: 4:1
Driven out before God: 2:5
Abel = hebel: 4:2
Hebel = Abel: 2:9
Cain wants to live: 4:13-14
Jonah wants to die: 4:4
Cain yšb east of Eden: 4:16
Jonah yšb east of city: 4:5
Tree and Snake: 2:5-3:24
Gourd and Worm: 4:6-7
Cause for evil: 3:22
Protection from evil: 4:6
Tree is delightful: 3:6
Glad because of gourd: 4:6
Snake entices to eat of tree: 3:4-5
Worm causes gourd to wither: 4:7
Tree given = test: 2:17
Gourd taken away = test: 4:7
Eat of tree and surely die: 2:17
Jonah wants to die because of gourd: 4:9
God the Creator of Beasts and men: 1:1-2:3
God who care for both Men and beasts: 4:11
seven days of creation
Seven narrative days. Cf. "God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land": 1:9
Jonah and Genesis 11-1, Eric W. Hesse & Isaac M. Kikawada, Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute (AJBI), Volume X (1984)

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