What animal first comes to mind when you hear "The Book of Jonah"? I would guess most people would say: a whale! And you're ...
This is Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder’s depiction of the giant fish coughing Jonah onshore to let him complete the mission God had given him. Brueghel lived from 1568-1625. (Courtesy Photo) ...
The biblical story of Jonah has always seemed rather fantastical; after all, who could survive in the belly of a whale? Since when do whales swallow people? Well, since this week, apparently; a man ...
Often unnoticed as the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is read in synagogue on Yom Kippur is a much smaller animal. Jonah, “Yonah” in Hebrew, means a dove. As the two Israeli scholars Menahem ...
On Yom Kippur afternoon, the Jewish world pauses and studies one of the Bible's most perplexing books, Megillat-Yonah, or as it is known in English, the Book of Jonah.
"Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah saying, 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it.' But Jonah rose up to flee, and he found a ship and went down into it from the presence of ...
"Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah saying, 'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it.' But Jonah rose up to flee, and he found a ship and went down into it from the presence of ...
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