Biblical Bibliographies
Charles Conroy [www.cjconroy.net]



Jonah: Psychological Studies


Abraham, N., Jonas et le cas Jonas. Essai de psychanalyse littéraire. Nouvelle édition, augmentée d'une présentation de N. Rand (Paris: Flammarion, 1999).

Corey, M. A., Job, Jonah and the Unconscious: A Psychological Interpretation of Evil and Spiritual Growth in the Old Testament (Lanham, MD: University of America Press, 1994).

Edinger, E., Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets from Isaiah to Malachi (Toronto: Inner City Books, 2000).

Fingert, H. H., "Psychoanalytic Study of the Minor Prophet, Jonah", The Psychoanalytic Review 41 (1954) 55-65. German version: "Psychoanalytische Studie über den Propheten Jona", in E. Nase – J. Scharfenberg (eds.), Psychoanalyse und Religion (WdF 275; Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1977) 180-192. [for an abstract see J. Lander in Psychoanalytic Quarterly 24 (1955) 312-313]

Fishman, G., "Commentary on Paper by Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg", Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18/3 (2008) 307-316. [see below s.v. Zornberg]

Heerden, W. van, "Psychological Interpretations of the Book of Jonah", OTE 16/3 (2003) 717-729.

Ingram, V., "Satire and Cognitive Dissonance in the Book of Jonah, in the Light of Ellens' Laws of Psychological Hermeneutics", in J. H. Ellens (ed.), Psychological Hermeneutics for Biblical Themes and Texts: A Festschrift in Honor of Wayne G. Rollins (T & T Clark Biblical Studies; New York & London: T&T Clark International, 2012) 140-155.

Kassel, M., "Das Buch Jona. Die Jonaerfahrung – auch für Frauen?", in L. Schottroff – M.-T. Wacker (eds.), Kompendium Feministische Bibelauslegungen. Unter Mitarbeit von C. Janssen und B. Wehn. 2., korrigierte Auflage (Gütersloh: Kaiser Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1998) 330-337. English version: "Jonah: the Jonah Experience—for Women Too?", in L. Schottroff – M.-T. Wacker (eds.) Feminist Biblical Interpretation: A Compendium of Critical Commentary on the Books of the Bible and Related Literature (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012) 411-420.

Lacocque, A. – P.-E. Lacocque, The Jonah Complex (Atlanta, GA: John Knox, 1981).

Lacocque, P.-E., "Desacralizing Life and Its Mystery: The Jonah Complex Revisited", Journal of Psychology & Theology 10 (1982) 113-119.

Lacocque, A. – P.-E. Lacocque, Le Complexe de Jonas: une étude psycho-religieuse du prophète (Initiations: Paris: Cerf, 1989). English version: Jonah: A Psycho-Religious Approach to the Prophet (Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament; Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1990). [an in-depth reworking of their 1981 work above]

Lasine, S., "Jonah's Complexes and Our Own: Psychology and the Interpretation of the Book of Jonah", JSOT 41.2 (Dec. 2016) 237-260.

Lawrie, D. G., "Psychoanalytical Approaches", in R. A. Arendse – E. M. Conradie – L. C. Jonker – D. G. Lawrie, Fishing for Jonah: Various Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Text and Context, 6 / Study Guides in Religion and Theology, 1; Bellville: University of the Western Cape Publications, 1995) 214-233.

Lawrie, D., "Psychoanalytical Approaches", in L. Jonker – D. Lawrie (eds.), Fishing for Jonah (Anew): Various Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Study Guides in Religion and Theology, 7 / Publications of the University of the Western Cape: Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2005) 171-189. [on Jonah see esp. 184-189]

Lifshitz, Z. H., The Paradox of Human Existence: A Commentary on the Book of Jonah (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1994).

Maslow, A. H., "Neurosis as a Failure of Personal Growth", Humanitas 3 (1967) 153-169.

Maslow, A. H., "The Jonah Syndrome", Religious Humanism 2/2 (1968) 61-64.

Maslow, A. H., The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (New York: The Viking Press, 1971), esp. 35-40. [this section of the book is entitled "The Jonah Complex"]

More, J., "The Prophet Jonah: The Story of An Intrapsychic Process", American Imago 27 (1970) 3-11.

Park, J., "The Spiritual Journey of Jonah: From the Perspective of C. G. Jung's Analytical Psychology", in J. Kaltner – L. Stulman (eds.), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon (JSOTSup 372; London: T & T Clark International, 2004) 276-285.

Salberg, J., "Jonah's Crisis: Commentary on Paper by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg", Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18/3 (2008) 317-328. [see below s.v. Zornberg]

Schriver, R., "Jonah's Growth in Relationship to God", The Bible Today 34 (1996) 289-294.

Shulman, D., "Jonah: His Story, Our Story; His Struggle, Our Struggle: Commentary on Paper by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg", Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18/3 (2008) 329-364.[see below s.v. Zornberg]

Sibony, D., "Jonas", in D. Sibony, Lectures bibliques: premières approches (Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob, 2006) 277-292.

Zornberg, A. G., "Jonah: A Fantasy of Flight", Psychoanalytic Dialogues 18/3 (2008) 271-299.