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Introductions

	H.L. Ellison, Men Spake from God, 2nd edn.. Exeter: Paternoster Press, 1958. Pbk. ISBN: 085364 0165. pp.160. To read the whole book, click here.
	John Kennedy [1813-1900], On the Book of Jonah. A Monograph. London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1895. Hbk. pp.115. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	W.E. Booth Taylor, The Prophetic Word. London: Carey Press, [1945]. Hbk. pp.162. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]

Commentaries

	Anthony Stocker Aglen [1836-1908], "Jonah," Charles John Ellicott [1819-1905], editor, An Old Testament commentary for English Readers various writers, Vol. 5. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1884. Hbk. pp.485-493. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Leslie C. Allen, Obadiah, Joel, Jonah and Micah. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976. ISBN: 9781467423687. pp.427. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	D.W. Baker, T.D. Alexander & Bruce K. Waltke. Obadiah, Jonah, Micah. Leicester: IVP, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0851118410. pp.207.
	Joyce Baldwin, "Jonah," in T. McComisky, editor, The Minor Prophets: An Exegetical and Expository Commentary, Vol. 2.. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993. Hbk. ISBN: 0801063078.
	James Bruckner, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah. The NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010. ISBN: 9780310866411. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	Barclay Fowell Buxton [1860-1946], The Book of Jonah. London: Japan Evangelistic Band, 1930. Pbk. pp.53. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	George Cunningham Monteath Douglas [1826-1904], The Six Intermediate Minor Prophets. Handbooks for Bible Classes. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, n.d.. Hbk. pp.157. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Samuel Rolles Driver [1846-1914], The Minor Prophets II. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. The Century Bible. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. Hbk. pp.337. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Robert Forman Horton [1855-1934], The Minor Prophets I: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah and Micah.The Century Bible. Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, n.d. Hbk. pp.196. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Alastair G. Hunter, The Judgement of Jonah. Yahweh, Jerusalem and Nineveh. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 9780567673626. pp.304. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	George A.F. Knight & F.W. Golka, The Song of Songs and Jonah. International Theological Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988. Hbk. ISBN: 0802803369. pp.148.
	James Limburg, Hosea-Jonah. Interpretation. John Knox, 1988. Hbk. ISBN: 0804231281. pp.201.
	Hinckley G. Mitchell [1846-1920]. John Merlin Powis Smith [1866-1932] & Julius A. Bewer [1877-1953], Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi and Jonah. International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1912. Hbk. pp.362 +88 + 265. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Conrad Von Orelli [1846-1912], The Twelve Minor Prophets. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1897. Hbk. pp.405. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Thomas Thomason Perowne [1824-1913], Obadiah and Jonah with Notes and Introduction. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898. Hbk. pp.96. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Raymond F. Person, Jr., In Conversation with Jonah. Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah. London: Bloomsbury, 1996. ISBN: 9780567525543. pp.204. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	J.M. Sasson, Jonah. Anchor Bible. Doubleday, 1990. Hbk. ISBN: 0385235259. pp.368.
	Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae or Discourses Digested Into One Continued Series and Forming a Commentary, Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament, Vol. 10: Hosea to Malachi, 6th edn. London: Henry G., Bohn, 1844. pp.252-279. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Daniel J. Simundson, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah: Minor Prophets. Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries. Abingdon Press, 2005. Pbk. ISBN: 0687342449. pp.352.
	Billy K. Smith & Frank Page, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah. The New American Commentary. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 1995. ISBN: 9781433672644. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	Douglas Stuart, Hosea-Jonah, Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 31. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017. ISBN: 9780310585879. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Jonah Through the Centuries. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2021. ISBN: 9781118973318. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	Jonah (Bob Utley)
	George Woosung Wade [1858-1941], The Books of the Prophets Micah, Obadiah, Joel and Jonah with Introduction and Notes. Westminster Commentaries. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1925. Hbk. pp.156. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Bruce K. Waltke, David W Baker & T. Desmond Alexander, Obadiah, Jonah and Micah. Tyndale Old Testament Commentary. London: IVP, 2015. ISBN: 9781783592630. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	John H. Walton, Carl E. Armerding & Larry L. Walker, Jonah, Nahum, Habukkuk, Zephaniah. The Expositor's Bible Commentary, rev. edn. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2017. ISBN: 9780310531968. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount on new subscriptions using this link]
	J.D.W. Watts, The Books of Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah. Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge, 1975. Pbk. ISBN: 052109870X. pp.190.
	Arthur Lukyn Williams [1853-1943], Obadiah, Jonah and Micah. The Minor Prophets Unfolded, Vol. 3. London: SPCK, 1919. Hbk. pp.73. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	H.W. Wolff, Obadiah and Jonah. Trans. M. Kohl. Augsburg, 1986. Hbk. ISBN: 080662244X. pp.191.

Other Studies

	G. Ch. Aalders [1880-1961], The Problem of the Book of Jonah. London: Tyndale, 1948. pp.30. pdf
	T. Desmond Alexander, "Jonah and Genre," Tyndale Bulletin 36 (1985): 35-59. pdf
	Brevard S. Childs, "Jonah: A Study in Old Testament Hermeneutics," Scottish Journal of Theology 11 (1958): 53-
	Brevard S. Childs, "The Canonical Shape of the Book of Jonah," Gary A. Tuttle, ed., Biblical and Near Eastern Studies: Essays in Honor of William Sanford LaSor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978. Hbk. ISBN: 0802835007. pp.122-128.
	S. Chow, "Jonah in Early Christian Tradition," Coniectanea Biblica. New Testament Series 27. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiskell, 1995. pp.175-210.
	Ronald E. Clements, "The Purpose of the Book of Jonah," Vetus Testamentum Supplements 28 (1975): 16-28.
	Kenneth M. Craig, "Jonah in Recent Research," Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 7 (1999): 97-118.
	Elmer Dyck, "Jonah Among The Prophets: A Study In Canonical Context," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 33.1 (1990): 63-73. pdf
	Jacques Ellul, The Judgment of Jonah, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, translator. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971. Pbk. ISBN: 0802813739.
	Paul Ferguson, "Who Was the 'King of Nineveh' in Jonah 3:6," Tyndale Bulletin 47.2 (1996): 301-314. pdf
	D.E. Hart-Davies [1870-1946], The Book of Jonah in the Light of Assyrian Archaeology," Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute 69 (1937): 230-47.
	Dom John Howton, "The Sign of Jonah," Scottish Journal of Theology 15 (1962): 288-
	Derek Kidner, "The Distribution of Divine Names in Jonah," Tyndale Bulletin 21 (1970): 126-128. pdf
	George M. Landes, "The Kerygma of the Book of Jonah," Interpretation 21 (1967): 3-31.
	Paul J.N. Lawrence, "Assyrian Nobles and the Book of Jonah," Tyndale Bulletin 37 (1986): 121-132. pdf
	R.J. Lubeck, "Prophetic Sabotage: A Look At Jonah 3:2-4," Trinity Journal 9.1 (1988): 37-46.
	J.D. Magonet, Form and Meaning: Studies in the Literary Techniques in the Book of Jonah. Bern: Herbert Lang, 1983. Pbk. ISBN: 0907459250. pp.184.
	Eugene H. Merrill, "The Sign of Jonah," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 23.1 (1980): 23-30. pdf
	R.W.L. Moberly, "Preaching For a Response? Jonah's Message to the Ninevites Reconsidered," Vetus Testamentum 53.2 (2003): 156-168.
	David F. Payne, "Jonah from the Perspective of Its Audience," Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 13 (1979): 3-12.
	Yvonne Sherwood, A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 0521795613. pp.334.
	Norman Henry Snaith [1898-1982], Notes on the Hebrew Text of Jonah. Study Notes on Bible Books. London: The Epworth Press. 1945. Hbk. pp.40. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the Snaith Family]
	J.H. Stek, "The Message of the Book of Jonah," Calvin Theological Journal 4 (1969): 23-50.
	Daniel C. Timmer, "A Compassionate and Gracious God": Mission, salvation, and spirituality in Jonah. New Studies in Biblical Theology 26. Leicester: Apollos, 2011. ISBN-10: 184474499X. pp.208.
	Alyssa Walker, "Jonah's Genocidal and Suicidal Attitude — and God's Rebuke," Kairos Evangelical Journal of Theology 9.1 (May 2015): 7-29. pdf
	John H. Walton, " The Object Lesson of Jonah 4:5-7 and the Purpose of the Book of Jonah," Bulletin for Biblical Research 2 (1992): 47-57. pdf
	Paul J.N. Lawrence, "Assyrian Nobles and the Book of Jonah," Tyndale Bulletin 37 (1986): 121-132. pdf
	Ernst R. Wendland, "Text Analysis and the Genre of Jonah," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39.2 (June 1996): 191-206. pdf
	Ernst R. Wendland, "Text Analysis and the Genre of Jonah," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39.3 (Sept. 1996): 373-395. pdf
	Andrew Whitman, "Jonah 4:1-11. 'Nineveh City Mission' leader resigns in angry protest!..." Evangel 15.1 (Spring 1997): 6-10. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Robert Dick Wilson [1856-1930], "The Authenticity of Jonah, Article I" Princeton Theological Review 16.2 (1918): 280-98. pdf
	Robert Dick Wilson [1856-1930], "The Authenticity of Jonah, Article II," Princeton Theological Review 16.3 (1918): 430-456. pdf
	Donald J. Wiseman, "Jonah's Nineveh," Tyndale Bulletin 30 (1979): 29-51. pdf
	Branson L. Woodard, "Death in life: the book of Jonah and biblical tragedy," Grace Theological Journal 11.1 (Spring 1990): 3-16. pdf [Reproduced Courtesy of the Brethren Digital Archive]
	Gary Yates, "The 'Weeping Prophet' and 'Pouting Prophet' in Dialogue: Intertextual Connections Between Jeremiah and Jonah," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59.2 (June 2016): 223-239. pdf