Since Jonah identifies himself first ethnically, then religiously, we may infer that his ethnicity is foremost in his self-identity, though it is clearly of no relevance to the sailors.
--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 70.
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