First may be mentioned poems that deal principally with events, being epic-lyric in character: the triumphal song of Israel delivered from Egypt, or the song of the sea ; the mocking song on the burning of Heshbon ; the so-called song of Moses ; the song of Deborah ; the derisive song of victory of the Israelite women ; Hannah's song of praise ; David's song of praise on being saved from his enemies ; Hezekiah's song of praise on his recovery ; Jonah's song of praise ; and many of the Psalms, e. g., those on the creation of the world, and on the election of Israel.

The record features several top session musicians ( who also appeared in the movie as the character Jonah's backing band ), including Eric Gale on lead guitar, Richard Tee on piano, Tony Levin on bass, and Steve Gadd on drums.

Some believers claim that Jonah did die in the belly of the great fish, and was then resurrected by God since Jesus himself associated this event in Jonah's life with his own death and resurrection.

The Union soldiers captured all of Jonah's fellow soldiers and then later massacred most of them, framing Jonah as a turncoat.

Jonah's platoon is subsequently captured and then slaughtered during an attempted escape known as the Fort Charlotte Massacre.

The prayer is a psalm of thanksgiving, serving to interpret Jonah's swallowing by the fish as an act of Divine salvation.

Jonah's mission to the Ninevites is commemorates by the Fast of Nineveh in Syriac and Oriental Orthodox Churches.

Jonah's Qur ' anic narrative is extremely similar to the Hebrew Bible story.

In both instances, Jonah's name is spoken of with praise and reverence by Muhammad.

While some Bible scholars suggest the size and habits of the great white shark correspond better to the representations given of Jonah's being swallowed, normally an adult human is too large to be swallowed whole.

A sign erected by the Israeli ministry of religions says that this is Jonah's burial site, but according to Jewish traditions this is the location of the burial of the prophets Nathan and Gad Hahozeh.

* The sanctuary of Jama Naballa Jonas is another place that tradition says is Jonah's grave, near the city of Mosul ( today in Iraq ), near the ancient remnants of Nineveh.

* Jonah's grave is also said to be near the city of Sarafand ( Sarepta ) in Lebanon.

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 homilist is creative, which Jonah's monologues and descriptions of the storm and belly of the whale unveil the poet's improvisation and colorful retelling of story, such as the manner how Jonah floats into the whale's mouth " like a mote going through the church door " ( 268 ).

Parallels have also been drawn with other biblical texts: Sinuhe's frustrated flight from the orbit of god's power (= King ) is likened to the Hebrew prophet Jonah's similar attempt, his fight with a mighty challenger, whom he slays with a single blow, is compared to the battle between David and Goliath and his return home likened to the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Kate is a lovely redhead, and Jonah is a " red-blooded male ," and the book is full of Jonah's thoughts on the subject regarding Kate's lovely figure, as well as what they do together, in detail.

Joshua Dazzleby is Jonah's half brother and is introduced in the graphic novel Jonah Hex: No Way Back.

As punishment for breaking the rules, Jonah is bound and the chief presses a heated tomahawk to the right side of Jonah's face giving him " The Mark of the Demon.

Spring, 1876: Jonah's son, Jason, is born.

1880: Jonah's mother dies and he learns that he has a half brother, Joshua Dazzleby, who is the sheriff and preacher in the town of Heaven's Gate, Colorado.

1987: Jonah's stuffed corpse is located in the Frontier City Amusement Park in Laramie, WY.

These characters are also contrasted to Jonah's passivity.

While most prophets had heroic names ( e. g., Isaiah means " God has saved "), Jonah's name carries with it an element of passivity.

Noh-Tante shared Jonah's affections for a young girl named White Fawn, so he betrayed his brother during their manhood rite at the age of 16 and left Jonah for dead with their enemies the Kiowa.

Noh-Tante sabotages Jonah's tomahawk, forcing him to cheat and end the fight with his knife.

June 1848: Jonah's mother runs away with a traveling salesman.

Prof. Lawrence, along with an aged Tall Bird, recover Jonah's corpse from an evil western memorabilia collector.

Neither of the Daytona children took their parents ' death well ; her brother Jonah's girlfriend became pregnant with his daughter, Shannon, and took off soon after her birth.

Initially grateful, Jonah's anger returns the next day, when God sends a worm to eat the plant, withering it, and he tells God that it would be better if he were dead.

Some biblical scholars believe Jonah's prayer () to be a later addition to the story ( see source criticism for more information on how such conclusions are drawn ).

The Bible uses the term ships of Tarshish to denote large ships intended for large voyages whatever their destination ; some Bible translations, including the NIV, go as far as to translate the phrase ship ( s ) of Tarshish as " trading ship ( s )," and Jonah's fleeing to Tarshish may need to be taken as " a place very far away " rather than a precise geographical term.

Stanley Harris reveals himself to be one of the Dogs of War, and enlists Jonah's service.

Additionally, he is thought by some to be the " King of Nineveh " who, upon receiving Jonah's prophecy of forthcoming doom, dressed himself in sackcloth and ordered a fast throughout the city in a successful attempt to prevent it.

Jonah's story delineates his own impatience because he could not handle the burden of what he was supposed to do -- preach to the Ninevites.

When the lots were cast, Jonah's name came out, and he was thrown into the open ocean that night.

* The people of Nineveh, in response to Jonah's prophecy, fasted to avert the judgment of God ( Jonah ).

He wrote Claudius as a passive pawn and an idiot — going so far as to hide his use of Claudius as a source and omit Claudius ' character from his works.

While official sources maintain that Lin planned and executed the alleged coup attempt, scholars such as Jin Qiu portray Lin as a passive character manipulated by members of his family and his supporters.

The two characters may be roughly equal or have a begrudging interdependence ( like Vladamir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot or the two main characters in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ); one character may be clearly dominant and may torture the passive character ( like Pozzo and Lucky in Waiting for Godot or Hamm and Clov in Endgame ); the relationship of the characters may shift dramatically throughout the play ( as in Ionesco's The Lesson or in many of Albee's plays, The Zoo Story for example ).

Although Novak's character was quietly rebelling against being thought of as " only pretty ", she has nonetheless been criticized as being too passive in the role.

The central character — an escaped prisoner played by Tracy — is seen as comparatively passive and fatalistic.

Steve Gerber depicted himself saving the universe in his final issue of Man-Thing for Marvel Comics, and Chris Claremont did the same, while Gerber's act was passive and Claremont's had him merge briefly with the title character.

Power-levelers sometimes circumvent this provision by what could be called " passive power-leveling ", where a high level character who has access to healing abilities does not formally join the lower-level character's party, instead a ) healing and / or " powering up " the lower-level character, b ) targeting the enemy with spells or effects that do not involve joining the battle, and / or c ) fighting alongside the lower-level character until the enemy is nearly defeated and then pausing the battle ( e. g., through use of " calm " or a similar command ) and allowing the lower-level character to resume, finish, and claim all the experience points for itself.

The Redford character perhaps in reaction to the inevitable Streisand performance, is passive and without edges.

** if the second character is " 1 ", then it denotes a passive participant in the SWIFT network

Since then, a surprising number of studies have upheld the descriptive validity of dependent personality traits, viewed as submissiveness, oral character traits, oral dependence, or passive dependence, or as a constellation of both pathological and adaptive traits under the rubric.

With the introduction of " Broadway Boulevard ", a project by the NYC Department of Transportation to close Broadway to vehicles on the stretch between 33rd and 35th Streets, the passive space provided by Herald and Greeley Squares more than doubled, radically changing the character of the area.

The player, often a character existing inside the gameworld, is able to hear music and sound normally only reserved for a passive audience, completely inaudible to characters in the story world of a film, for example, and this raises philosophical questions as to the essential function of such content in games.

Tarle was accused by Kozhukhov of having made use of foreign sources to the detriment of those of Russian origin, of having emphasized the passive character of Kutuzov ’ s maneuvers and of having claimed that Kutuzov was continuing the tactics of the Barclay de Tolly.

Schroeder is normally a very passive character, content to play his music, but he can be angered quite easily, especially if his music or his idol Beethoven are insulted.

The initial concept involved a passive main character ; the object was to get robots that chased the protagonist to collide with stationary, lethal obstacles.

GameSpot noted that Elaine is usually much more proficient at escaping trouble " than the so-called hero who comes to save her ", while the video game culture journal Eludamos approved of the character for allowing a level of " feminine expression which did not necessary always conform to passive ideals of the damsel in distress ".

Unlike the Superman alter-ego of Clark Kent, who was originally little more than a front for Superman's activities, and who adopted a passive " mild-mannered " persona to conceal his underlying strength, Prince's identity functioned both to position Wonder Woman so that she could learn of situations requiring her intervention and to allow the character to embody feminist and other ideals espoused by Charles Moulton.

In Daughter of Shanghai, Wong played the Asian-American female lead in a role that was rewritten for her as the heroine of the story, actively setting the plot into motion rather than the more passive character originally planned.

Guinevere, whose name is usually just shortened to " Guin " by his brother, is largely a passive character, easily upset, his big brother often coming to his rescue.