My occasionally foulmouthed commentary on the Book of Jonah can be found here. See 2010’s Father’s Day card for bettas here.
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I’m standing on your stele of Hammurabi! How do you like that, Ninevites?
All right, let’s get this over with. What’s a good place to prophesy from?
Surrounded by twelve miles of wall and fifteen gates, measuring about twice the size of Central Park, Nineveh is a Bronze Age New York City — and Jonah’s a yokel from an unremarkable Israeli border town. The look on his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wikipedia provides a handy explanation for why Jonah really didn’t want to end up where he is right now: Military history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
You know, when the LORD gets an idea in his head he’s like a dog with an old sock, he just won’t let go of it.
In my mind that’s the same dove that the sailors sacrificed. Jonah has come back to life so the dove does too. Cf. also Stephen Mitchell’s argument, in the introduction to his Book of Job, that the children Job gets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Keep in mind that Jonah was in that fish for three days and nights before uttering this prayer. Do you suppose he was in shock, or thinking about what he had done, or sulking, or what?
That’s an eagle ray! Rays are cool.
While it’s true that Bela is very huge, Jonah’s great fish has to be a marine creature, not a freshwater one.
