Tag: Jonah

• Jonah – A Good-Fun Read (v)

  Here are some final thoughts on the story of this unwilling, seemingly unrepentant, successful failure of a prophet.  Putting this book into the “Prophets” section of the Bible, alongside the weightily serious Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, might seem itself to be a bit of a joke. Next but one from Jonah comes Nahum. Whereas in…

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  4th Oct 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Bible, Cattle, Dawkins, God, Hebrew Bible, Jonah, Laughter, Library, Old Testament, Prophets

• Jonah – A Good-Fun Read (iv)

  We left Jonah swimming in a pool of fish vomit on a beach. Once again he was told to go to the Assyrian capital city, Nineveh, “and preach his message of doom”. This time he went ! The comedy continues when the size of the city is greatly exaggerated. Archeologists tell us it was just…

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  30th Sep 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Assyria, Conversion, Evangelism, God, Hebrew Bible, Jonah, Nineveh, Old Testament, Rationalisation, Self-centred

• Jonah – A Good-Fun Read (iii)

  We lost sight of Jonah when, on our hero’s uncompromising insistence, the good-hearted sailors very reluctantly tossed him into the sea. At once the inestimable power of Jonah’s God was demonstrated, in the immediate and complete calming of what had been an overwhelmingly tempestuous sea. No great surprise then, that in the New Testament, Jesus…

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  26th Sep 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Hebrew Bible, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Archetypes, God, Jonah, Joseph Campbell, Messiah, Mystics, Myths, New Testament, Old Testament, Psalm, Resurrection, whale

• Jonah – A Good-Fun Read (ii)

  We left Jonah on the boat to Tarshish, sleeping peacefully in his below-decks’ hammock, but that peace is about to be rudely disturbed. God has Jonah firmly fixed in his sights, and not only outdoes his Greek rival Poseidon, but even transcends the thunderbolts of Zeus, when he hurls such a horrendous gale onto the…

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  23rd Sep 2022

  Christianity, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Beliefs, Faith, God, Humour, Jonah, Old Testament, Prayer, Prophet, Religion, Sea

• Jonah – A Good-Fun Read

  The little book called “Jonah” shows us that the Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, really can be a ‘good read’, especially if understood in a common sense, down-to-earth way. It wasn’t written by God, and shouldn’t be approached with literal woodenness, and kill-joy solemnity. But even it were, Psalm 2:4 tells us that, “In heaven…

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  21st Sep 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Hebrew Bible, Hero, Humour, Imagination, Israel, Jonah, Old Testament, Poseidon, Prophets, Stories

• “Oh Jonah, he lived in a whale”

  As the song from Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ reminds us … Jonah was God’s appointed prophet, but had an attack of foot and mouth disease. His mouth refused to take God’s message to the people of Nineveh, and his feet took him to a port with a boat to Spain. Now what was all that…

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  18th Dec 2020

  Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Religion

  Jonah, whale