Talk:Book of Jonah

message: I've begun adding citations following the SBL footnote style. Jonberglund (talk) 21:20, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: The article says:
:The interpretative styles of Jews, Christians, Muslims, and atheists have all been employed to understand the Book of Jonah
It's possible, of course, that atheist interpretations of this book were published, but the article doesn't say anything more about it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:36, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify "atheist interpretation" 

message: Firstly, this is a Jewish book, and any non-Jewish interpretations are a transgression and invalid.
Jonah means Dove, true enough, but the metaphor has escaped this article. A dove was sent out by Noah to look for land, so a Dove is an animal that is searching for something on land (Tarshish)
Jonah's father was Amitai. The Semetic root origin of Amitai is Emet. Emet means truth.
Jonah ben Amitai is the son of truth searching for something.
The ultimate truth in Judaism is God
So Jonah ben Amitai is someone searching for God.
QED.
Leviathan (Litar) in Hebrew is a whale. But the origin goes back to Canaanite or Ugaritic mythology. Chistopher Siren http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/books/Siren/canaanite-faq.html explains this as...........
Chaos gods, death gods and baneful gods.
Yam (Nahar, Yaw, Lotan?, Leviathan?) 
He is god of sea and rivers, he dwells in a palace under the sea. He carries a feud with Baal. He may have had in his following a dragon (tnn) which lives in the sea, a serpent (btn), and/or Lotan/Leviathan, or may have been all of those creatures. 
He is given kingship by El. He threatens vast destruction until El names him 'beloved of El' and sends him on his way to oust Baal. Upbraided by Kothar-and-Khasis, he dispatches messengers to El to demand the delivery of Baal. Baal strikes him with Yagrush and Chaser in the chest and forehead, knocking him down. He is slain and scattered at the urging of Athtart. The battle may have been representative of rough winter sea-storms which calmed in the spring and which were preceded and accompanied by autumn rains which ended summer droughts and enabled crops to grow. 
The parallel between this an Jonah is clear, especially as the early Jewish religion is loaded with the names from the Ugarit, Canaan and Persian pantheons. Historygypsy (talk) 19:15, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpretations 

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message: The article on the prophet Jonah mentions in its opening paragraph that mainstream Biblical scholars consider the Book of Jonah to be fictional/satirical, and that article goes into great depth about the satirical elements of the book. Obviously this is far from the only interpretation of the book, but it seems strange that this article makes no mention of the view of mainstream Biblical scholars. Altay8 (talk) 21:16, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Satire 

message: Jonah = Javan (Greece)
Jonah swallowed by a whale = Greek empire swallowed  by Rome.
Just granpa (talk) 20:07, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jonah = Javan