Book of Jonah

Occasionally, there is something we can’t describe; something that wouldn’t make sense or a sensation that would be hard to... understand. Sometimes there is this feeling – deep in your heart – that is almost painful, like a dagger right through the heart. When you can’t even speak, when you’re heart races so fast, there’s that wonder if something will kill you – if you will just die there, alone and afraid. Sometimes it feels like a cobweb – like someone is spinning you in circles and weaving their

The prophet Jonah is eminently significant in terms of how he prefigured the events, teachings and mission of Jesus. The life of Jonah is a similar resemblance to the life of Jesus in the way that they both encountered comparable events throughout their lives. For instance, both Jesus and Jonah plunged into the raging waters of the sea, willing to sacrifice themselves in order to save others. In Bible passage Jonah 1: 12 we evidently see Jonah willing to sacrifice himself in order for others to be

what’s happened to him as he is sitting in the bottom of a whale trying to figure this out. Chapter three deals with Jonah’s correction as he begins to understand that he needs to change things. In the end, chapter four deals with Jonah’s objection. Jonah gets mad because the people he hated got saved. He just doesn’t get what God is trying to show him. If you look at these four chapters from God’s perspective, you are going to get a totally different picture. The first chapter deals with God’s election

Jonah is one of the more well-known books in the Old Testament, as it contains a familiar story to Christians and non-Christians alike. As a child growing up, most of us would be familiar with the story of Jonah and his being swallowed up by the fish. Even many non-Christians I know who did not grow up in church have made mention of this Biblical story. While the story of Jonah and the fish is often romanticized or even changed (i.e. changing the fish to a whale), the story and moral lesson contained

The Word of the Lord came upon Jonah saying to him "Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me." (Jonah 1: 2) However Jonah was scared by the the abrupt presence of God. Jonah was confused as well as scared and soon decided to flee away from the Lord and his word. Jonah fled onto a ship to escape The Lord's call - Jonah 1:3 Jonah fled to Tarshish and went down to Joppa where he found a ship sailing off to Tarshish. He paid to go on

dating for the composition of Jonah. Even attempts to locate the book within the pre-exilic, exilic or postexilic period by various scholars have proven to be futile. With the exception of placing the writing between the eight century and third century BCE, none of the commentaries under review answers the question of when the book was written. Therefore, neither will we speculate on this topic. There seem to be no known method that has conclusively proven when Jonah was written. AUDIENCE It is

Between Jonah and the Whale and Moby Dick Without a doubt Herman Melville used the Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale as the basis and foundation of reference for his book, Moby Dick. He began to hint at the themes of his book with Father Mapple recounting the story of Jonah during his sermon, this gives off a fishy sense of foreshadowing of the destiny of the crew of the whaling ship. Melville is able to complexly incorporate the nightmare of Jonah and the Whale all throughout his book, causing

except 36 babies. This is a piece of the book The Missing: Found by Margaret Peterson. While this story takes place in a unique, interesting, and unrealistic setting, it still has a universal theme to it. The author shows that the characters can make strong friendships through character and plot development. The plot of this book is about the journey of discovering their own identities, and the journey starts because of the main characters’ friendships. Jonah, the main character, has been loved and

The Goal (Goldratt & Coxx, 2004) at first sounds like a book on production engineering, yet entrenched deep within it are the fundamentals of cost accounting. The book focuses on the Theory of Constraints in a language that even non-specialists can understand. The authors through a fictional story show that there are various ways to balance their personal lives, business processes, and even industrial relations. Alex, the plant manager, is faced with problems in his problems as a result of spending

a short story by Ben Marcus, is about an intelligent young boy whose parents struggle coping with his emotional detachment. Throughout the story, the boy’s father, Martin, has the reader questioning whether or not there actually is a problem with Jonah or whether he is over-reacting. Through various scenes in the story one may conclude that it is combination of both. A Cold Little Bird is told through the point of view of the father, Martin. Martin is portrayed as a loving father figure who cares