What’s that? It’s a lamassu, the quintessential symbol of Assyrian might! They put them at the gates of important cities like Nineveh.
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“Look, Mother, it’s that one Jew who was yelling at us!”
You’d think the story would end when Jonah finally did his job and succeeded, causing the Ninevites to repent. But that’s not really what this book is about.
Jonah talks to God the way I talk to my therapist. Maybe I should be more afraid of my therapist.
Thus ends chapter three of the Book of Jonah. Chapter four consists mainly of Jonah throwing a tantrum, but there’s also a gourd involved.
The Neo-Assyrians were nice enough to leave behind a lot of art that enables me to draw period-accurate thrones and robes and beards and stuff.
Sackcloth is just rough uncomfortable cloth, but the only two times in the Bible that it is assigned a color it is described as black, and that seems appropriate for penitence.
Feels good to get back to my favorite antihero.
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There’s air-conditioning in the box.