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In 1996 Raymond F. Person, Jr. published the first monograph on Jonah in which the text is approached primarily from the perspective of Conversation Analysis (i.e., R.F. Person, In Conversation with Jonah: Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism, and the Book of Jonah [JSOTSup 220, Sheffield, 1996]). The volume already warranted a formal discussion at the (November) 1996 meeting of Socio-Linguistics Group of the Society of Biblical Literature. The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (JHS) is glad to provide its readers a (revised) version of the papers that were presented at that meeting.