I’ve encountered several midrashim about Jonah, but this one (from Pirkey d’Rabbi Eliezer) is my favorite. Before Leviathan flees, Jonah tells it off, too: he says, “For your sake I have come down to see your dwelling-place, because in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Yes, Walter did say this about Jews. I have no doubt that he’d prescribe lobotomy for a short-tempered Hebrew with suicidal ideation and an insistence that God speaks through him.
I’m plumb out of draw-juice, so have a page of Jonah. The thing about not being able to draw very well is that no one will understand what an accomplishment that ziggurat is.
Gregor Samsa’s family first notices something has happened to him when he doesn’t get up in time for work. That would not be the case here.
If I can understand Jonah when he speaks Aramaic, I figure I could understand Jesus when he spoke Hebrew, or Greek. Me and Biblical prophets, we’re like this.