I'm really interested right now in texts that deal with God changing God's mind. We're looking at Exodus 32:1-14 today in class on my suggestion. Any thoughts, people?
I like the idea that we, people, human beings, agents, free will-ers, have a say in the making of God's mind. What I'm finding is that there aren't too many scholarly articles willing to cope with this in depth.
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i think that these things about divine repentence are awesome. i'm totally in love with jonah for this reason:
jonah says a big fuck you to god and runs away, gets thrown overboard and eaten up. reluctantly goes to ninevah and works his ass off to do what he's supposed to do (get the folks to behave so god doesn't kill them). does it, god says god's gonna kill them anyway. at which point jonah gets pissed the fuck off and yells at god. then god's like. oh. i suppose you're right. okay, jonah, i won't kill them.
there's that whole part in jonah where he's being mopy under some tree. i never really understand that. maybe i'll reread it tonight.
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