Tag: Assyria

Reflections on Jonah: God’s Mercy

Jonah Under the Vine, Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd .... should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand 280-290 CE, marble, late Roman, Asia Minor, Cleveland Museum of Art, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, mythoughts, David Reese

I recently went though the book of Jonah to see what God might have to say. I have started by simply drawing the story down to an outline of text. God, יְהוָ֔ה – Yhvh, begins the story by speaking to His servant, Jonah, telling him to goto Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. Jonah flees in […]