I’m standing on your stele of Hammurabi! How do you like that, Ninevites?
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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…
That’s an eagle ray! Rays are cool.
Jonah 2 is where the story abruptly changes gears. Up until now it’s been an action movie.
This is the action-packed ending to the first chapter of the Book of Jonah, which has been action-packed throughout. That was only seventeen verses, but look at all that happened!
I find the idea of praying to someone else’s god very compelling. You don’t know what the protocol is because that religion is foreign to you, so you can only try to reason with him at the top of your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
