Book of Jonah
Noun
Meaning
a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale
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As far as the Book of Jonah is concerned, Targum Jonah offers a good example of this.
In c. 409 AD, Augustine of Hippo wrote to Deogratias concerning the challenge of some to the miracle recorded in the Book of Jonah.
Jonah in Judaism seeAlso The Book of Jonah (Yonah יונה) is one of the twelve minor prophets included in the Tanakh.
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.
This concept is developed in the Book of Jonah: Jonah, the son of truth (the name of his father "Amitai" in Hebrew means truth), refuses to ask the people of Nineveh to repent.
Through his typological interpretation of the Book of Jonah, Jesus has weighed his generation and found it wanting.