The oppressive tributes and the fearful conquest drawing near gives Jonah good reasons to desire Nineveh’s fall. And God himself is angry at Nineveh: “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,” God tells ...

Often unnoticed as the tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is read in synagogue on Yom Kippur is a much smaller animal. Jonah, “Yonah” in Hebrew, means a dove. As the two Israeli scholars Menahem ...

The biblical story of Jonah has always seemed rather fantastical; after all, who could survive in the belly of a whale? Since when do whales swallow people? Well, since this week, apparently; a man ...

(RNS) — Let us pray for the success of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza, which has now been agreed to by Israel and Hamas. But let us also take a note of caution from the Book of Jonah ...

I recently re-read the story many call “Jonah and the whale” and I could not help but compare Jonah and Nineveh with the Philippines. Filipinos today are much like Jonah when it comes to calling out ...