This is the Bama Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host for Embellyngs. Today we look at the

book of Jonah and try to uncover the message buried in this most unusual prophet. Indeed, most unusual.

Hey, let's review today. Let's do a short review, shall we? We have in class what we call the short review.

And I think we'll do this and maybe I'm assuming we'll have a capstone lesson for session two.

I think so. Like we had for session one, so we'll do some short reviews, long reviews. We'll

spend some time doing that on a presentation. But if we were going to do a short review,

we would say that Torah, the books of Moses, we really need to make sure we start with the story

as good. We don't we don't ever want to forget story as good and trust the story. I mean, that is

the foundation and that is the premise on which we build the whole narrative. It's where God

starts. It's where God builds a narrative. It's where we want to start and build our narrative.

So we need to include that. But if you can remember, Brent, when we talked about it in session one,

at the end, we said we could really summarize all of Torah and what word partnership, partnership.

Right. So God's looking for a partner. He chooses a partner in Genesis. He rescues that partner

and marries that partner in Exodus. He defines the partnership in Leviticus. He shapes the partner

in numbers. He asks the partner to remember where they come from in Deuteronomy. So Torah really

ends up being about stories. Good. Trust the story and what it looks like to partner with God when

you do. And then after that, we I always have a section I call it, I just call history. This is not

how the Jews would talk about Tinnakh in particular. But as we walk through the chronology of

what we call the Old Testament, the history, redemptive cycle, redemption cycle, thinking of the book of

Judges. So it's a good way to just summarize all of the history. Even the kings, we really don't have

any kings or there's really no period in the history of God's people where you're like there.

They got it. That is a great period of history. There's always a period of just

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