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Jonah

Biblical and Quranic prophet

This article is about the biblical figure. For other uses, see Jonah (disambiguation).

Jonah the son of Amittai or Jonas (Hebrew: יוֹנָהYōnā, lit. 'dove')^[a] is a Jewishprophet in the Hebrew Bible hailing from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE. He is the central figure of the Book of Jonah, one of the minor prophets, which details his reluctance in delivering the judgment of God to the city of Nineveh (near present-day Mosul) in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. After he is swallowed by a large sea creature (Hebrew: דג גדול, romanized: dāḡ gāḏol, lit. 'large fish') and then released, he returns to the divine mission.

In Judaism, the story of Jonah represents the teaching of repentance in Judaism, the ability to repent to God for forgiveness. In the New Testament of Christianity, Jesus calls himself "greater than Jonah" and promises the Pharisees "the sign of Jonah" when referring to his resurrection. Early Christian interpreters viewed Jonah as a type of Jesus.

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A peculiar and somewhat mournful interest hangs around the life of Jonah. Elements of good and evil struggled powerfully within him—at times plunging him to the lowest depths and, at others, raising him to supernatural heights. Born in a morally dismal age, Jonah was forced to tread strange and murky paths, remarkable for both their troubles and achievements. He seemed ill-prepared for the times and they for him. Often an unhappy prophet—the troubled spirit that plagued him through life seems even to slumber in his ashes.

Jonah thrown overboard

The Lord sent Jonah to Nineveh, a great and evil city, situated in what is now northern Iraq. But Jonah fled to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. And the runaway parted with far more than his passage money that day. No booking clerk in Joppa could have counted up for Jonah all that it cost him to flee from his duty to Nineveh.

Jacob fled from Esau, David fled from Saul, but only Jonah fled from God. Mankind has never been able to hide from God. As Wiesel writes, “God is always swifter and arrives first everywhere, even when

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Book of Jonah

Book of the Bible

The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament. The book tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but attempts to escape his divine mission.

The story has a long interpretive history and has become well known through popular children's stories. In Judaism, it is the Haftarah portion read during the afternoon of Yom Kippur to instill reflection on God's willingness to forgive those who repent,^[1] and it remains a popular story among Christians. The story is also retold in the Quran.

Mainstream Bible scholars generally regard the story of the Book of Jonah as fictional, and often at least partially satirical.^[5] Most scholars consider the Book of Jonah to have been composed long after the events it describes due to its use of words and motifs exclusive to postexilic Aramaic sources.^[7]^[8]

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