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How To Read The Book Of Jonah
Book of Jonah

Albert Younas

Basic Hebrew HB1

Ptr. Billy
March 4, 2011

For most people in the former generation the book of Jonah is literary and historical account. They said that Jonah lived during the reign of Jeroboam II. Some scholars obtain that no evidence is been found outside the bible that Nineveh went through such a religious conversion. The book is name after the main character of the book Jonah which means “DOVE” driven from the old Hebrew. Scholars agree on certain things about the book, but they have drawn quite different conclusions in addressing the following questions:

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Key verses / literary style Authorship/Date: Driven from the principal character Jonah son of Armatti; no direct claim of authorship can be connected to Jonah himself but it refers to a third person. Jonah was from Nazareth who …show more content…
God commissioned Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach to them repentance of their sin and tell them what God wants from them. By reading the book of Jonah we could see God’s compassion, mercy and unconditional love in each verse. After receiving God's call to go and preach to Nineveh, he tried to run from his calling and from God, which reveals the true condition of Jonah’s heart in the mission of God. For us today it may seem dishonorable act of running from God; as we know that nobody can run away from God. God is always at work even though we may sleep or have rest after day’s handwork so it happened to Jonah as he feels from God and gets into the ship and fell asleep. For some writers “the main theme of the Book of Jonah is that God wants man to love his enemies. Mercy and pity are encouraged because, although God wants man to preach against evil, it should always be in the hope that the wrongdoers will repent. Its message also stresses the universality of God, that he is the God of all mankind”.
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