Jonah is a remarkable prophet. He is more than a forecaster of God’s revelations, more than a preacher of persistent patience, or impending wrath. To readers, Christian, Jewish, and even Muslim, his ...

The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is happening in the Middle East right now, the Book of Jonah is especially relevant to us today. Jonah is not a children's ...

Is there a more singular, better known, or more beloved prophet than Jonah? In him we recognize both the humanity in greatness and the greatness in human frailty. Called by the Lord to speak to the ...

Jonah was famously swallowed by a whale or a fish, depending on the literature, and his Islamic narrative has some similarities as well as substantial differences to the Hebrew Bible story. The Quran ...

(RNS) — Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, took place last Thursday, giving us Jews our annual opportunity to think about the prophet Jonah, whose book the rabbis assign us to read as the 25-hour fast ...

Late in the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Jews read the Book of Jonah, the story of the recalcitrant prophet who wanted his words of warning to go unheeded. There's a lesson here for the current situation ...

Jonah is a strange book. What attracts most people is its theatrics, especially the big fish. On Yom Kippur afternoon the story gets a somnolent congregation giggling. Hardly anyone thinks that it is ...

The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, is considered the most solemn on the Jewish calendar, but do we know why? The answer lies in the Book of Jonah the Prophet. Its reading as a key part of the prayer on ...

The holiest day in the Jewish calendar is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, with its theme of repentance. And one of the synagogue readings for Yom Kippur is the Book of Jonah (in Hebrew, sefer Yonah) ...

People walk on the rubble of the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Yunis (Arabic for Jonah) in Mosul, Iraq, on Thursday, July 24. Militants belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, ...