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Yunus (Arabic: يونس, Yūnus; Arabic synonym of "Jonas" or "Jonah"), [1] is the 10th chapter of the Quran with 109 verses . Yunus is named after the prophet Yunus ( Jonah ). According to tafsir chronology ( asbāb al-nuzūl ), it is believed to have been revealed before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his followers from ...
It contains three types of commentary: (1) the p'shat, which discusses the literal meaning of the text; this has been adapted from the first five volumes of the JPS Bible Commentary; (2) the d'rash, which draws on Talmudic, Medieval, Chassidic, and Modern Jewish sources to expound on the deeper meaning of the text; and (3) the halacha l'maaseh ...
Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," [10] but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going ...
The International Critical Commentary (or ICC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the Old Testament and New Testament.It is currently published by T&T Clark, now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
The story of Jonah and the fish in the Old Testament offers an example of typology. In the Old Testament Book of Jonah, Jonah told his shipmates to throw him overboard, explaining that God's wrath would pass if Jonah were sacrificed, and that the sea would become calm. Jonah then spent three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish ...
He is Senior Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary's School of Theology, where he teaches in the Hebrew Prophets, OT 'Writings' and OT Exegesis in Lamentations and Psalms. He is the author of a number of scholarly books, most notably the commentary on the books of Joel, Obadiah, Jonah and Micah in the New International ...
Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a "great fish", in whose belly he spends three days and three nights. [20] While inside the great fish, Jonah prays to God in thanksgiving and commits to paying what he has vowed. [21] Jonah's prayer has been compared with some of the Psalms, [22] and with the Song of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1-10. [23]
His books include How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, and How to Read the Bible Book-By-Book (both of which he co-authored with New Testament scholar and then fellow Gordon-Conwell professor Gordon Fee); Old Testament Exegesis: A Primer for Students and Pastors; Hosea-Jonah (Word Biblical Commentary); and Exodus (New American Commentary).