Everyone can read Jonah. It's a short and simple story. Yet it's also more than that: it's an endless source of fascination for Bible scholars and theologians for what it reveals about God's justice and mercy. |
The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me." But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord... Continue Reading › |
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The book of Jonah is considered a great story by many. But, is it fact or fiction? If you read more about Jonah in the New International Encyclopedia of Bible Characters, you learn that Jesus believed it to be a factual story. He drew parallels between his own death and resurrection and the experience of Jonah, as well as exploring ties to the repentance of Ninevah. |
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Who wrote Jonah? A story like this is the kind of story that likely would have originated with the person it's about. But that doesn't necessarily mean that Jonah wrote the book. Where is Nineveh? Ninevah is mentioned in Genesis 10 as being one of the oldest and most influential cities of the Mesopotamian region. But the city of Ninevah didn't really reach its apex of political importance until around the year 700 BC, which is when Sennacherib chose to have the capital of the Assyrian empire moved to that location. |
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In this video, Old Testament scholar Kevin J. Youngblood answers some of the biggest questions about Jonah: |
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