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," but Jonah instead attempts to flee … 查看更多內容

Translation
Though art and culture often depicts Jonah's fish as a whale, the Hebrew text, as throughout scripture, refers to no marine species … 查看更多內容

In Turkish, "Jonah fish" (in Turkish yunus baligi) is the term used for dolphins. A long-established expression among sailors uses the term, … 查看更多內容

• Aquanaut, a person who stays underwater for a long time
• Biblical and Quranic narratives
• Jonah on the Sistine Chapel ceiling 查看更多內容

In Judaism
The Book of Jonah (Yonah יונה) is one of the twelve minor prophets included in the Tanakh. According to one tradition, Jonah was the boy … 查看更多內容

The story of a man surviving after being swallowed by a whale or giant fish is classified in the catalogue of folktale types as ATU 1889G.
Historicity
Many Biblical scholars hold that the contents of the 查看更多內容

Epic of Gilgamesh
Joseph Campbell suggests that the story of Jonah parallels a scene from the Epic of Gilgamesh, in which Gilgamesh obtains a plant from the bottom of the sea. In the Book of Jonah, a worm (in Hebrew tola'ath, "maggot") bites … 查看更多內容