The Book of Jonah

Hebrew scripture · c. 450 BCE · Scripture · Judeo-Christian · Ancient

Told to go and preach against Nineveh, the prophet takes ship in the opposite direction; the storm that follows puts him overboard and into the belly of a great fish. Delivered to the city at last, he preaches forty days of warning, and the whole of it repents from the king down to the cattle. Four short chapters on the scandal of mercy extended to the enemy.

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Lineage

• prefigures ↓ Moby-Dick
  Herman Melville · 1851 CE · Novel
• ↓ Patience
  The Gawain Poet · c. 1400 CE · Poem — retells this
• ↓ Jonah's Gourd Vine
  Zora Neale Hurston · 1934 CE · Novel — takes its title from this

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• Patience
  The Gawain Poet · c. 1400 CE · Poem

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• The Divine Comedy
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  42% · 9 shared
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• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  Coen Brothers · 2000 CE · Film

  42% · 9 shared
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• Haroun and the Sea of Stories
  Salman Rushdie · 1990 CE · Novel

  39% · 8 shared
  AllegoryFreedom vs FateTricksterHero's JourneyVoyage and ReturnThe SeaMythicComic
• The Dream of the Rood
  Anonymous · c. 750 CE · Poem

  39% · 8 shared
  AllegoryDuty & HonorFaith & DoubtEverymanThe Treevs Fate / Godsvs SelfMythic
• The Bhagavad Gita
  Hindu scripture · c. 200 BCE · Scripture

  38% · 9 shared
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