Jonah arose – and he ran. He hurried himself to the port, and paid money to board a ship heading for Spain at the other end of the Mediterranean sea. Perhaps there, far away from the Holy Land, he would no longer hear the voice of truth that disturbed him so. Jonah lay down in ...
Bible Commentary on Jonah and the Whale (Jonah 1) In this chapter we have,I. A command given to Jonah to preach at Nineveh (v. 1,v. 2). II. Jonah’s disobedience to that command (v. 3). III. The pursuit and arrest of him for that disobedience by a storm, in which he was ...
After examining Aviva Zornberg's analysis of the Book of Jonah in which she argues that the message, like the latent dream à la Freud, is obscure, I argue that the meaning of the Book of Jonah is clear. Psychic unity requires that we face our objects—God and conscience, Nineveh and ...
BJonah and the WhaleI know a good story, but it's about a whale. Its'sfrom the Bible (圣 ) actually. It's called Jonah andthe Whale.One day God askeda man named Jonah todo something for him.The people of Nineveh(尼尼微 ——古 代亚述的首都) were all being bad. God asked Jonah...
First: Jonah. I actually read the book of Jonah a few months ago, but my Bible happened to fall open to those pages a day or so ago and I was reminded of my observations, which perhaps aren’t super new but, honestly? I kind of had to laugh when I read chapter 4 (bear with me...
H. Layard carried out a series of excavations among the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, “that great city, wherein are more than sixteen thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattle” (Jonah iv, II). Its ruins lie on the left...
NINEVEHJONAHNARRATIVE CRITICISMEXILEPROPHETSSETTINGFocusing particularly on elements of spatial setting in the narrative, this essay explores the ways in which memories of exile haunt the story of Jonah. While Jonah is not a book about exile, the traumatic experience of expatriation and captivity casts...