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.
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Jonah talks to God the way I talk to my therapist. Maybe I should be more afraid of my therapist.
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.
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.