The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im in the Jewish Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament, where it has four chapters. The book tells of a
Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible
Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré
Jonah in four scenes: bottom left Jonah thrown into the sea by the crew of the boat which was to take him to Tarsis, bottom right, Jonah praying in the mouth of the whale, top left, Jonah preaching to the people of Nineveh outside the city gates, and top right, Jonah praying to God on a rock. Paris Psalter, f. 431v.
Christ rises from the tomb, alongside Jonah spit onto the beach, a typological allegory. From a 15th-century Biblia pauperum.
Nineveh was an ancient Near Eastern city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and l
Book of Jonah
…Testament, where it has four chapters. The book tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but attempts to escape his divine mission. The story has a long interpretive history and has become well known through popular children's stories. In…
The reconstructed Mashki Gate of Nineveh (since destroyed by the Islamic State)
View of the village of "Nunia" or "Ninive", published by Carsten Niebuhr in 1778
Village in Nineveh in 2019
Beveled rim bowl. Clay, from Nineveh, Late Uruk Period, 3300-3100 BC. British Museum