The Book of Jonah

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The Book of Jonah
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AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien
EditorBrendan Wolfe
PublisherDarton, Longman & Todd
Released(Unpublished)
FormatHardcover
Pages104[1]

The Book of Jonah was a book intended to be published in 2009. However, for unknown reasons the publication was cancelled (apparently due to a legal controversy).[2]

The book was intended to include a Foreword by Sir Anthony Kenny.[3]

From the publisher

[A] beautiful new presentation of one of the best-loved Bible stories in a translation by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Editor] Brendan Wolfe tells the little-known story of how Tolkien, then at the height of his fame as the author of The Lord of the Rings, agreed to join the team of Catholic writers and scholars working on a major new translation of the Bible into English in the early 1960s. The result was the Jerusalem Bible, still celebrated for its elegant, timeless English. Wolfe shows the resonances between the story of Jonah and the whale, Tolkien's contribution to the JB, and themes in his other writings.

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References

  1. The Book of Jonah at Amazon.co.uk (accessed 6 December 2010)
  2. Jason Fisher, "Sometimes the whale wins ..." (10 February 2010) at Lingwë (blog) (accessed 6 December 2010)
  3. Jason Fisher, "More information on The Book of Jonah" (20 May 20009) at Lingwë (blog) (accessed 6 December 2010)