Jonah praises God for rescuing him from death, but he is not happy when God again tells him to go to Nineveh, but this time he goes. When he arrives in Nineveh, Jonah announces that in 40 days the ...

Jonah is a remarkable prophet. He is more than a forecaster of God’s revelations, more than a preacher of persistent patience, or impending wrath. To readers, Christian, Jewish, and even Muslim ...

Jonah praises God for rescuing him from death, but he is not happy when God again tells him to go to Nineveh, but this time he goes. When he arrives in Nineveh, Jonah announces that in 40 days the ...

(RNS) — When the unwilling prophet blames God for his woes, God answers by trolling Jonah. An illustration of the prophet Jonah and the giant fish. (Image by Gordon Johnson/Pixabay/Creative Commons) ...

Jonah was the worst prophet. In the last chapter of the book that bears his name, Jonah discovers that because of his preaching, Nineveh repented and God decided not to destroy the city like Jonah ...

Jonah* Mr. Nathan Sees a Figure in the Desert The Story. Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night ...

The prophet Jonah, through his message and his humanity, became a symbol to all of God’s mercy and our own conflicted humanness. Jonah is the son of Amitai, a name derived from emet, truth.

Jonah took a ship from Joppa on the coast of Israel (Jonah 1:3), trying to get away from God. This was the Mediterranean Sea. Were there sperm whales in that body of water during Old Testament times?

Militants have blown up Jonah’s tomb, a revered holy site in Mosul, Iraqi civil defense officials said.