The Book of Jonah Chapter 1 Jonah and the whale—finally a story I already know! It’s been months since I’ve read a Bible story that I’ve heard before. (I think the last one was Solomon ...

(JTA) — If one were to imagine what the prophet Jonah saw on his way down into the gullet of the whale, it might be something ... on a very ancient biblical book — one Jews will read on ...

True, he wasn’t swallowed — the whale spit him back out a few seconds later — but it’s still pretty close to the story from the book of Jonah. The man in question, Adrián Simancas ...

Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale’s belly like a man looking for a light switch. The Danish religious ...

BOSTON (JTA) — Challah-eating Australian kangaroos, an adventurous cartoon retelling of the biblical story of Jonah and the welcome second-in-a-series chapter book about a young girl with a ...

For generations, children’s books and cartoons involving a commodious whale have Disneyfied the Hebrew story, deleting entirely Jonah’s disappointment when the city of Nineveh repents and is ...

This skeleton of a 46-foot sperm whale hangs at the Whaling Museum ... of the daylong Yom Kippur liturgy is the reading of the book of Jonah, an enigmatic narrative of a reluctant prophet, an ...

On the holiest day of the year, at the most auspicious time of the day, the afternoon, we read “The Story of Jonah and the Whale ... comprises the entire Book of Jonah, one of the 24 Books ...

The Story. Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob. At length ...

BOSTON (JTA) — Challah-eating Australian kangaroos, an adventurous cartoon retelling of the biblical story of Jonah and the welcome second-in-a-series chapter book about a young girl with a ...