Hello Daryl Stout!

** On Wednesday 17.02.21 - 11:18, Daryl Stout wrote to August Abolins:

 DS>>  On this day...
 DS>>     Jonah took
 DS>>     No brush
 DS>>     To mop his face
 DS>>     Where Jonah went
 DS>>     He needed space

 AA>> HUH? The only Jonah I know is the one in the story of Jonah and
 AA>> the great fish. What does the one above mean?

 DS>   It's the same one. He basically was "running from God",
 DS>   as he hated the people who lived in Ninevah. God wanted
 DS>   him to warn them that judgment was imminent, unless
 DS>   repentance was forthcoming. Jonah basically wanted the
 DS>   Ninevites wiped out, as they were a threat to Israel and
 DS>   the Jews.

I am familiar with the story. Thanks.  So, the reference to  
"needed space" refers to the cramped quarters of the fish's  
stomach? (BTW.. the original hebrew does not use the word  
whale.)

 DS>   Unfortunately, for Ninevah, the repentance was apparently
 DS>   short lived, as a short time later, they were back to
 DS>   their iniquity...and this time, God did destroy them.

I either forgot or didn't know about that part.

The VeggieTales movie about Jonah is hilarious. They represented  
the iniquity as the people going around slapping other people in  
the face with fishes.

 DS>   Well, I had thoughts about eating lunch until I typed
 DS>   this reply. :P

Hope your luch was worth the wait.

I just learned that Tolkien wrote a commentary on the Jonah  
story.

BTW.. WRT to your attempt to explain the logics of stomach acid  
in the fish, check out the book Jonah by (forgot the the author,  
but will look it up.. I have some of the author's books in my  
shop).  It explores what it might have been like in the belly of  
the great beast.  As a sceptic, I was impressed with the  
imagining.

Lastly, there are other "changes" in the hebrew text that  
suggest that Jonah was in TWO great fishes: the first one (male)  
and large stomach and therefore refused to pray, and the second  
one (female) with much smaller stomach and therefore he began to  
pray.

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