(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza. (RNS) — The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is ...

As the Hebrew literally puts it, “And it was evil to Jonah a great evil and it burned to him.” Far from admitting that God was right to send him to Nineveh, the prophet proceeds to justify his ...

British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

The story begins with Jonah being told by God to preach repentance to Nineveh. Nineveh was the capital of Assyria, an empire that included what today we call Iraq and Syria. By the time the story ...

That is why Jonah was sent to Nineveh and not a gentile prophet. We are a Holy Nation and a Kingdom of Priests, and as the Priests we are to be the teachers and a light to all the nations.

Now was a perfect time for a prophet from far away to arrive on the scene and command a response. The repentance of an entire pagan city the size of Nineveh would be a greater miracle than for Jonah ...

better known or more beloved prophet that Jonah? In him, we recognize both the humanity in greatness and the greatness in human frailty. Called by the Lord to speak to the people of Nineveh ...

regretfully abandoned Jonah to the rugged mercies of his God; and how Leviathan, by prearrangement, rose from the sea-bottom and bore the gurgitated prophet in his belly to Nineveh. There Jonah ...

Now was a perfect time for a prophet from far away to arrive on the scene and command a response. What was the result of Jonah's preaching? The ancient city, with up to 1.5 million people, repented!

Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?

And should I not be concerned over Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons … ?" "The Prophet Jonah" (1550-1585) by Italian engraver Adamo Scultori (Artvee ...