The Masoretic text places Joel between Hosea and Amos ( the order inherited by the Tanakh and Old Testament ), while the Septuagint order is Hosea – Amos – Micah – Joel – Obadiah – Jonah.

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

It tells the story of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah ben Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.

As mentioned above, the book of Jonah is not written like the other books of the prophets.

Jonah is almost entirely narrative with the exception of the psalm in chapter 2.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

The story of Jonah is a drama between a passive man and an active God.

Jonah, whose name literally means " dove ," is introduced to the reader in the very first verse.

Jonah is furious, however, and angrily tells God that this is the reason he tried to flee from Him, as he knew Him to be a just and merciful God.

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

In Jonah 1: 6, the Masoretic Text ( MT ) reads, "... perhaps God will pay heed to us ...." Targum Jonah translates this passage as: "... perhaps there will be mercy from the Lord upon us ...." The captain's proposal is no longer an attempt to change the divine will ; it is an attempt to appeal to divine mercy.

The debate over the credibility of the miracle of Jonah is not simply a modern one.

In the popular understanding of Jonah, the fish is interpreted to be the low point of the story.

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.

The Biblical story of Jonah is also repeated, with minor differences, in the Qur ' an.

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

Ordered by God to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it " for their great wickedness is come up before me ," Jonah seeks instead to flee from " the presence of the Lord " by going to Jaffa and sailing to Tarshish, which, geographically, is in the opposite direction.

A long-established expression among sailors uses the term " a Jonah " as meaning a person ( either a sailor or a passenger ) whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.

The biblical names of his four sons-Mikâîl ( Michael ), Isrâîl ( Israel ), Mûsâ ( Moses ), and Yûnus ( Jonah )-suggest previous acquaintance with either Khazar Judaism or Nestorian Christianity.

July 1851: Jonah's father, a physically abusive alcoholic, sells him into slavery to an Apache tribe in exchange for either a pile of pelts ( Jonah Hex vol.

The two Jonah Hex series have different explanations, and it is unclear which is the canonical version of the story, if either.

As one of the Bugles staff and J. Jonah Jameson's secretary, Betty is usually seen either passing on messages to Jonah or receiving curt orders from him.

* Jonah: A person ( either a sailor or a passenger ) who carries a jinx, one whose presence on board brings bad luck and endangers the ship.

Jonah is rescued by White Fawn, his former girlfriend and widow of Noh-Tante.

A great sea creature sent by God, swallows Jonah.

Jonah preaching to the Ninevites, by Gustave Doré.

Jonah Cast Forth By The Whale, by Gustave Doré.

And as Jonah suffered this for the sake of those who were endangered by the storm, so Christ suffered for the sake of those who are tossed on the waves of this world.

* Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie by Big Idea Productions, 2002

Jonah had already uttered his message of warning, and Nahum was followed by Zephaniah, who also predicted ( Zephaniah 2: 4-15 ) the destruction of the city, predictions which were remarkably fulfilled ( 625 BC ) when Nineveh was destroyed apparently by fire, and the Assyrian empire came to an end, an event which changed the face of Asia.

Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a large fish specially prepared by God where he spends three days and three nights.

Displeased by this, Jonah refers to his earlier flight to Tarshish while asserting that, since God is merciful, it was inevitable that God would turn from the threatened calamities.

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus makes a reference to Jonah when he was asked for a miraculous sign by the Pharisees and teachers of the Law.

Jonah is regarded as a saint by a number of Christian denominations.

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

God responds by showing Jonah that he is " angry at doing good ", and that he too would agree to spare an ephemeral plant if it has importance for him.

Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible to be mentioned by name in the Qur ' an.

At the present time, Nineveh's location is marked by two large mounds, Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus ( Prophet Jonah ).

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.

Depiction of Jonah in a champlevé enamel ( 1181 ) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, Austria.

When praying, Jonah repeats God's 13 traits failing to say the last one which is "... and Truthful ", and changing it with "... and who is willing to forgive the bad ".

Jonah ( Yunus in Arabic ) is highly important in Islam as a prophet who was faithful to God and delivered His messages.

The Qur ' an describes Jonah as a righteous preacher of the message of God but a messenger who, one day, fled from his mission because of its overwhelming difficulty.

Later on, this meaning was extended to " a Jonah " referring to " a person who carries a jinx, one who will bring bad luck to any enterprise.

" An example of a so-called " Jonah " would be that of the sailor in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who was cursed to be lost at sea after he killed an albatross.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

As a result, God spared the city ; when Jonah protests against this, God states He is showing pity for the population who are ignorant of the difference between right and wrong (" who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand " ) and the animals in the city.

J. Jonah Jameson hires Kraven the Hunter to capture the last smilodon located there who turned out to be Zabu.

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.

Drawing from his knowledge of the Torah, Fromm pointed to the story of Jonah, who did not wish to save the residents of Nineveh from the consequences of their sin, as demonstrative of his belief that the qualities of care and responsibility are generally absent from most human relationships.

* ' The narrator ' is a writer named John, also known as Jonah, who describes the events in the book with humorous and sarcastic detail.

However, by other more documented accounts, the lake's designation borrows from the moniker of a Native American woman, Magdalena, who interpreted the language for a Spanish expedition into Florida in 1549, or even more likely, the name comes from the 1882 marriage of John Parrish and Mary Magdalene Yates, daughter of Jonah Yates, first mayor of Plant City in the Lake Magdalene section of Hillsborough County.

A popular lake in Eden Prairie is Staring Lake, which was named by Jonah Staring who built the first house by the lake.

In his later years the blind prince was greatly helped by Metropolitan Jonah, boyars, and then by his older son Ivan III who was styled co-ruler since the late 1450s.

Commentator Jonah Goldberg wrote that Ferengi were portrayed in The Next Generation as " runaway capitalists with bullwhips who looked like a mix between Nazi caricatures of Jews and the original Nosferatu.

18 months later, on Christmas Eve 1992, Jonah — who wants his father to find a new wife — calls into a talk radio show.

Many dancers who trained with Cunningham formed their own companies, and they include Paul Taylor, Remy Charlip, Viola Farber, Charles Moulton, Karole Armitage, Robert Kovich, Foofwa d ’ Imobilité, Kimberly Bartosik, Floanne Ankah and Jonah Bokaer.

Jonah Goldberg, who took exception to Olasky's descriptions of both candidates, nonetheless recognized what Olasky was trying to say:

It mentioned that, in the 1800s, Ra's battled Jonah Hex, who also battles Ra's al Ghul's deranged son Arkady Duvall ( voiced by Malcolm McDowell ).