Jonah in the Shadows of Eden

"Berger displays a virtuoso mastery and exemplary control of a spectrum of literary devices, including inner-biblical allusion, multiple resonances, and various types of wordplay . . . to propose a new interpretation of the Book of Jonah."—The Heythrop Journal

"Yitzhak Berger displays extraordinary textual learning as he picks up multiple verbal resonances connecting Jonah to the Tanakh. He is methodologically disciplined in defending these parallels as genuinely allusive rather than coincidental and as exegetically significant. His use of secondary literature in several languages is exemplary."—Benjamin D. Sommer, Jewish Theological Seminary