The study in Biblical Hebrew has been going well. Our class of seven students and three instructors reads, uses and memorizes half-sentences and verse-portions from the Book of Jonah. It's been so illuminating to see in Jonah the rehearsal of various biblical themes, for example, the various stories of a call issued to an OT servant, like Abraham or Moses. Or next, the rehearsal of the theme that water has. It's both a circumstance of rescue and a place of violence in the Old Testament, like with Noah and the flood, or again Moses at the Red Sea. Here in Jonah, as well, the water of the Great Sea plays a role of both destruction and salvation. It's been a great way to study Hebrew and the particulars of the Jonah narrative.
G. Mark Sumpter
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