Jonah was a prophet with a mission from God; it was not a mission he particularly relished. Having served God for many years he was at his wit’s end at the merciful nature of God. God’s mercy made ...

Now the word of the L-RD came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, (Jonah 1:1) “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” (Jonah 1:2) But ...

The story of Jonah being swallowed by a fish is one of the most colorful of biblical stories. The sages, careful readers that they were, noticed an unusual literary discrepancy in the story. When ...

Jonah offers himself as a sacrifice in order to save the other men on the ship. He has no idea what will happen to him when they hurl him into the see, but he does know that he’s the reason God has ...

The Quran tells the story of Prophet Yunus, Jonah, who got swallowed by the whale. He lived in the city of Nineveh, now in modern day Iraq. Similar to prophets who came before him, Jonah called people ...