Reader's Comment on Jonah Article

Re previous post, article: "Prophet Jonah and the Beginnings of a New History" 

 

 

 

Dear Damien,

I just read your article on Jonah, I like the way that you have incorporated Ginzberg's legends into the mix. This is a recent realization on your part is it not? If I am not mistaken, it was not too long ago, that you would not have considered Jonah to have lived as early as the reign of Ashurnasirpal. However, Jewish legends named Jonah's Assyrian king Osnappar, which is much like the name Ashurnasirpal in my opinion. Furthermore, Jonah need not have lived so long as the days of Jeroboam II, just because one of his prophecies came true at that time, does not necessarily mean lived that he lived that long. For as you know the prophets often forecasted events that took place long after their deaths.

In my view, in order for Jonah to have influenced the myth of Jason, the earlier chronology becomes necessary.

 

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