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