{"id":12984,"date":"2012-11-15T18:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T02:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2015-03-26T14:10:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T21:10:42","slug":"introducing-jonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/introducing-jonah\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12987\" title=\"writing commentary\" src=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/writing-commentary.jpg\" alt=\"writing commentary\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/writing-commentary.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/writing-commentary-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I finished the rough draft of the\u00a0<a title=\"Introduction to Jonah\" href=\"http:\/\/gracecommentary.com\/jonah\/\">Introduction to Jonah<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction is a little over 6000 words, which is longer than some full commentaries on Jonah&#8230; I hope I am not overdoing it&#8230; The final version of the full-length commentary will probably be about 50,000 words.<\/p>\n<p>But I am really excited about some of the things I am learning from Jonah, and I think you will be as well. It is going to forever change how you read Jonah.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting all the sections of the <a title=\"Introduction to Jonah\" href=\"http:\/\/gracecommentary.com\/jonah\/\">Introduction over on the Grace Commentary<\/a> site over the next two weeks, and then we will move into studying Jonah 1.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget, everyone who subscribes to my <a title=\"Email Newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/subscribe\/\">free email newsletter<\/a> will get a free digital copy of this commentary when it comes out. It is just my way of saying &#8220;Thank you for reading!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the rough draft of the Introduction to Jonah today. The introduction by itself is a little over 6000 words.  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