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.
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Feels good to get back to my favorite antihero.
I’m standing on your stele of Hammurabi! How do you like that, Ninevites?
All right, let’s get this over with. What’s a good place to prophesy from?
Surrounded by twelve miles of wall and fifteen gates, measuring about twice the size of Central Park, Nineveh is a Bronze Age New York City — and Jonah’s a yokel from an unremarkable Israeli border town. The look on his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wikipedia provides a handy explanation for why Jonah really didn’t want to end up where he is right now: Military history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
You know, when the LORD gets an idea in his head he’s like a dog with an old sock, he just won’t let go of it.
In my mind that’s the same dove that the sailors sacrificed. Jonah has come back to life so the dove does too. Cf. also Stephen Mitchell’s argument, in the introduction to his Book of Job, that the children Job gets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That’s an eagle ray! Rays are cool.
Jonah 2 is where the story abruptly changes gears. Up until now it’s been an action movie.