He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
"I fear Jehovah the God of heaven ..." The Interpreter's Bible calls this, "A common post-exilic title for [~Yahweh], and in wide use in the Book of Ezra, and in the Elephantine papyri of the fifth century B.C.!"[28] Such irresponsible comments as this are designed to support a postexilic dating of Jonah, long after the times when Jonah lived; but such allegations are completely refuted and contradicted by the fact that Abraham himself, the ancestor of all the Hebrews, refers to God in exactly these same words  (Genesis 24:7).  It is more charitable to charge Smart (in Interpreter's Bible) with ignorance than it is to charge him with a lack of integrity.