ABSTRACT

Mutatione nominum 253-263; Legum allegoriae I I I , 65-75a; 162-168; 1691 5 2 Thus L . H . Brockington, “Jonah,”Peake’s Commentary on the Bible, eds. M.

Black and H. H . Rowley (London, 1962) 627. 1 5 3 Bloch, VDBS 5, 1275. I f the prolonging of a theme constitutes midrash, then

K. Budde (“Vermutungen zum ‘Midrasch des Buches der K ö n i g e , ’ ” ZAW 12 [1892] 37-38) has suggested that Jon was originally part of the Midrash of the Book of the Kings mentioned in 2 Chr 24,27 and that Jon originally stood in relation to 2 Kgs 14,25 in that work but has since been excerpted and stands alone. The suggestion has