Der problematische Prophet is a meticulously edited volume containing a wealth of material on the biblical prophet Jonah from a wide variety of perspectives. Some twenty chapters explore the significance of the prophet in exegetical and theological tradition as well as his afterlives in literature, music and art. Among the theological topics included in the volume are the figure of Jonah as a type of Christ, the importance of the prophet in Reformation theology and reasons for his popularity with the German reformers. Chapters on the prophet's frequent appearance in literature are represented by a work by Albert Camus and Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Casper Brulow's oratorio Jonah is contextualised within the cultural context of seventeenth-century Germany while Michelangelo's Jonah in the Sistine Chapel (the artist is said to have identified himself with the prophet) is explored by Michael Rohlmann. The volume is impressively illustrated with twenty-six figures embedded in the chapters and a further twenty-eight colour plates in a comprehensive compendium of images in the appendix. In addition, the volume contains some forty pages of primary and secondary sources providing references to literature, drama and music that help to document the appeal of the prophet to the artistic mind, as well as to the exegete and theologian.