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1 | give me a bio on jonah | OT general | amhobson123 | 4113 | ||
could somebody geve me a biograf on jonah | ||||||
2 | give me a bio on jonah | OT general | Makarios | 4114 | ||
The man Jonah is found in the Bible as the name of only one person, the Israelitish prophet of 2 Kings 14:25 and the Book of Jonah. All that is really known about him is found in those two sources. According to both, he was the son of Amittai, and 2 Kings 14:25 connects him with Gath-hepher, a place named in Joshua 19:13, in the territory of Zebulun, now probably represented by el-Meshhed, 2 1/2 miles to the east of Sepphoris, and not far from Kefr Kenna and Nazareth, in the neighborhood of which is a grave of Nebi Yunus or Yunis. If this identification is right, Jonah was not only Israelitish in the narrower sense, but Galilean. He seems to have lived and worked in the latter part of the 9th cent. B.C. or in the earlier part of the 8th. His one prediction, recorded in Kings, of the extension of the kingdom of Samaria from the Orontes to the Dead Sea, is said to have been fulfilled in the reign of Jeroboam II. (B.C. 790 to 749 or 782-741). It has generally been inferred that the prediction was also uttered in that reign, but the inference is uncertain. It may have been delivered under Jehoash (B.C. 802-790 or 798-782), or even under Jehoahaz (815-802 or 798). Still, Jonah may be reasonably regarded as to some extent a contemporary of Jeroboam II. There is no mention in Kings of any connection of Jonah with Assyria, but it is quite possible that the memory of a visit to Ninevah was preserved by tradition or in some lost historical work. From B.C. 782-745, Assyria was comparatively weak, and was governed by relatively insignificant kings. That the Jonah of Kings is identical with the Jonah of the book was questioned by Winckler in 1900, but the objection was withdrawn in 1903. The identification of Jonah with the son of the widow of Zarephath, which is mentioned by Jerome, and other assertions of Jewish origin, have no historical value. (Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, James Hastings - Editor, 1909 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; 1994 Hendrickson Publishers, 2nd printing) by Nolan Keck. | ||||||
3 | give me a bio on jonah | OT general | JonnyRay49423 | 4122 | ||
I recommend this book on Jonah "The Prophet Jonah His Character And Mission To Nineveh" by Hugh Martin | ||||||