Rabbi Steven Bob is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Etz Chaim in Lombard, IL. He serves Guest Faculty at Wheaton College and as an Adjunct Professor at Elmhurst University. He is the author of: Go to Nineveh: Medieval Jewish Commentaries on the Book of Jonah translated and Explained (Pickwick Publications, 2013) and Jonah and the Meaning of Our Lives: A Verse-by-Verse Contemporary Commentary (JPS, 2016).
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The Book of Jonah is unique in describing an Israelite prophet sent to an Assyrian city to rebuke them for their sins and persuade them to repent. Were the Assyrians merely bit players in the divine plan for Israel, or does God really care about the sins of non-Israelites? Radak, Abravanel, and ibn Ezra have very different theological approaches to this question.
The Book of Jonah is unique in describing an Israelite prophet sent to an Assyrian city to rebuke them for their sins and persuade them to repent. Were the Assyrians merely bit players in the divine plan for Israel, or does God really care about the sins of non-Israelites? Radak, Abravanel, and ibn Ezra have very different theological approaches to this question.
