Jonah's Perplexing Assignment--Jonah 1-1-4--Introduction to the Book of Jonah--Date- Around 550 B.C. -Post-Exile---Act 1- Stage-Setting Episode -1-1-4--Act 1- Pre-Peak Episode -1-5-17--Act 1- Peak Episode -2-1-10--Act 2- Stage-Setting Episode -3-1-3--Act 2- Pre-Peak Episode -3-4-10--Act 2- Peak Episode -4-1-4--Act 2- Post-Peak Episode -4-5-11---I. The LORD commissions. -Vv. 1-2---------II. The Prophet disobeys. -V. 3---------III. The LORD rebukes. -V. 4-