The Book of Jonah ( Hebrew: Sefer Yonah ) is one of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible.

As far as the Book of Jonah is concerned, Targum Jonah offers a good example of this.

The Book of Jonah appears to have served less purpose in the Qumran community than other texts, as the writings make no references to it.

In c. 409 AD, Augustine of Hippo wrote to Deogratias concerning the challenge of some to the miracle recorded in the Book of Jonah.

* Book of Jonah

During the Minchah prayer, the haftarah reading features the entire Book of Jonah.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

Jonah is also the central character in the Book of Jonah.

In the Book of Jonah a worm ( in Hebrew tola ' ath, " maggot ") bites the shade-giving plant's root causing it to wither, while in the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh plucks his plant from the floor of the sea which he reached by tying stones to his feet.

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

The Greek sources are however several centuries later than the Book of Jonah and the form Jonas which is similar to Jason is from the Septuagint translation of the book.

Jonah is mentioned twice in Chapter 14 of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, the conclusion of which finds Tobit's son, Tobias, at the extreme age of one hundred and twenty seven years, rejoicing at the news of Nineveh's destruction by Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus in apparent fulfillment of Jonah's prophecy against the Assyrian capital.

* The Book of Jonah ( NIV )

This is followed by Mincha ( the afternoon prayer ) which includes a reading ( Haftarah ) of the entire Book of Jonah, which has as its theme the story of God's willingness to forgive those who repent.

Jones's major illustrated series include wood engravings produced for editions of The Book of Jonah, The Chester Play Of The Deluge, Aesop's Fables and Gulliver's Travels as well as for a Welsh translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes, Llyfr y Pregethwr.

Thus ( Irenaeus, i. 30, p. 109 ) the first archon sent Moses, Joshua, Amos, and Habakkuk ; the second Samuel, Nathan, Jonah, and Micah ; the third Elijah, Joel, and Zechariah ; the fourth Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel ; the fifth Book of Tobit and Haggai ; the sixth Micah ( qu.

Although most of the work is a paraphrase of the biblical Book of Jonah, the poet has expanded upon the text in many places.

* Davis, Adam Brooke, 1991 " What the Poet of Patience Really Did to the Book of Jonah.

The noteworthy exception is the Book of Jonah, an anonymous work containing no prophetic oracles, probably composed in the Hellenistic period ( 332 BCE – 167 BCE ).

# In the Book of Jonah, the desperate sailors cast lots to see whose god is responsible for creating the storm: " Then the sailors said to each other, “ Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity .” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Traditional Jewish exegesis such as Midrash ( Genesis Rabbah 38 ) says that Adam spoke Hebrew because the names he gives Eve-" Isha " ( Book of Genesis 2: 23 ) and " Chava " ( Genesis 3: 20 )-only make sense in Hebrew.

In a vision in the New Testament Book of Revelation, an angel called Abbadon is shown as the king of an army of locusts ; his name is first transcribed in Greek as " whose name in Hebrew Abaddon " ( Ἀβαδδὼν ), and then translated as, " which in Greek means the Destroyer " ( Apollyon, Ἀπολλύων ).

The Book of Joshua () is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament.

The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible.

Together with the Book of Nehemiah, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible.

The Book of Daniel ( named after Daniel ) is part of the Hebrew Bible.

Contrary to the above, the Expositor's Bible Commentary ( Zondervan, 1990 ) says that the language of Daniel, in comparison with the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Hellenistic period, " prove quite conclusively to any scholar that the second-century date and Palestinian provenance of the Book of Daniel cannot be upheld any longer without violence being done to the science of linguistics.

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible.

The events take place in the second half of the 5th century BC, and together with the Book of Ezra, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible

The Book of Jeremiah () is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

The Book of Isaiah () is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of the Twelve.

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The Book of Numbers ( from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi ;, Bəmidbar, " In the desert ") is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible, and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah.

The Book of Judges ( Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים ) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

* Book of Isaiah ( English translation Rashi's commentary at Chabad. org )

* Hebrew and English Parallel and Complete Text of the Book of Job English Translation is the 1917 Old JPS

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That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

Traditional English Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian prayer books have borrowed from the Book of Common Prayer, and the marriage and burial rites have found their way into those of other denominations and into the English language.

Following the publication of the 1552 Prayer Book, a revised English Primer was published in 1553 ; adapting the Offices and Morning and Evening Prayer, and other prayers, for lay domestic piety.

In 1557, the Scots Protestant lords had adopted the English Prayer Book of 1552, for reformed worship in Scotland.

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

It was this edition which was to be the official Book of Common Prayer, during the growth of the British Empire, and, as a result, has been a great influence on the prayer books of Anglican churches worldwide, liturgies of other denominations in English, and of the English language as a whole.

Nonconformist members and members from constituencies which would not have been affected by the Revised Book were only exercising their full legal rights in throwing out a Measure which was approved by the majority of English Members of Parliament.

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

Cheddar was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Ceder, meaning " Shear Water ", from the Old English scear and Celtic dwr.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

Also, in Chapter XI ( entitled ' How to compare two different Systems of Laws ') of Book XXIX he advises that " to determine which of those systems the French and English systems for the punishment of false witnesses is most agreeable to reason, we must take them each as a whole and compare them in their entirety.

The first English translation of Christine de Pizan ’ s The Treasure of the City of Ladies: or The Book of the Three Virtues is Sarah Lawson ’ s ( 1985 ).

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

* Genesis in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, Latin, and English – The critical text of the Book of Genesis in Hebrew with ancient versions ( Masoretic, Samaritan Pentateuch, Samaritan Targum, Targum Onkelos, Peshitta, Septuagint, Vetus Latina, Vulgate, Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion ) and English translation for each version in parallel.