Friday, August 29, 2014

Tolkien's JONAH, revisited

So, about a month back I was intrigued by news (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Journal_of_Inklings_Studies_Vol.4_nº2) that TOLKIEN'S JONAH -- that is, his work for the JERUSALEM BIBLE on The Book of Jonah -- is due to be published this fall in THE JOURNAL OF INKLINGS STUDIES.


This project had been announced before as a small book, back in 2009, but that publication had fallen through, unfortunately: for more about that earlier erstwhile publication, see the following informative blog posts by Jason Fisher:

http://lingwe.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-new-tolkien-material-coming-this.html

http://lingwe.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-information-on-book-of-jonah.html


Now someone's trying again, in what seems to be a less expansive and less ambitious form: published in an upcoming issue of a journal.  This isn't a journal I'd seen before, and from their website it seemed difficult to pre-order a forthcoming issue, so I decided to subscribe so as to get both the current issue (Vol. 4 No.1) and the next, which shd have the JONAH piece in it.

So for now I'm awaiting the expected arrival of that issue come October -- which is not all that far away, considering. In the meantime, I've read some of the contents of the issue that arrived -- but I'll save my response to that for another post.

--John R.
current reading: a book on bumblebees by Dave Goulson (A STING IN THE TALE)


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