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Contents 1 The {} sign/s 2 Jonah and Jason 3 2 OT figures? 4 Buddist perspective? 5 External Links update 6 The "fish" 7 Jonah in Islam 8 Disambig Page 9 Islam prophets?

[edit] The {} sign/s

The sign/s: {{NPOV}}{{expansion}}{{Cleanup}} placed on this page without any discussion, explanation or reasoning have been removed pending further discussion. (The category Category:Bible stories is now up for a vote for deletion at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Bible stories) Thank you. IZAK 08:02, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jonah and Jason

On the recent unsigned but very comprehensive additions:

1. Thank you for taking the time to write so much and in such detail, but I feel some changes are in order.
2. This article is now more about Jason than it is about Jonah. I don't know what Wikipedia policy is about "balance." I suppose articles must pass through unbalanced states on the road to balance, but this seems a rather extreme case. Think about how a school-kid with no knowledge of Jonah would be mislead by this.
3. I don't consider myself an expert in this, but I know enough (eg., I did three years of graduate school in Greek and, among other things, TAed Greek mythology courses) to know this is not a wide-spread notion. Academic references are in order.

At a minimum, can we (1) put this under a subhead, (2) make it clearer that this is a speculative theory and (3) add references? Lectiodifficilior 16:18, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and sign-in or sign up. I'm sure we'd all like to "meet" you. Lectiodifficilior 16:18, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

In fact, if references can't be found, I'm afraid it will have to be removed as original research. Jayjg ^(talk) 16:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

As mentioned on Jayjg's talk page, the idea is not new. But it isn't widely shared either, and since the article is online, I don't really see the point of going into such depth. Any last thoughts/defence before I cut it down to a paragraph? Lectiodifficilior 09:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

No objections from me. Jayjg ^(talk) 17:35, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2 OT figures?

Nelson's Pocket Reference Bible Dictionary says of Noah: The name of 2 persons in the OT, one of whom is the central figure in the Book of Jonah. Who, I wonder, is the other? Andrewa 10:41, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Buddist perspective?

Is this really relavent? I mean it doesn't really have anything to do with Jonah perse, it has much more to do with Buddhist beliefs than anything.

and for that matter why's this "Jonah and Cassondra" thing here? In my opinion it doesn't add to the article at all. (Cabin Tom 02:54, 18 January 2006 (UTC))

at least quote the source and read the book of Jonah. It actually God who caused the plant to whither (not Jonah) and it was to illustrate the destruction of 120,000 small children vs. a tiny plant. What is more important? Jonah thought the plant was more important, but God is luckily a God of mercy
I removed the section Blubberbrein2 02:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links update

I have added the link to the Catholic Encyclopedia account of Jonah, a second link to the Prophet Jonah at JewishEncyclopedia, and updated the BibleGateway link to include the entire book instead of the first chapter.

Is there room to consider why God was so adamant that Jonah should go to Nineveh and preach repentance. What was the place this repentance of Nineveh played in the overall plan of Salvation of Yaweh?

[edit] The "fish"

No explanation/theory about the great fish? Surely, there ought to be some reference to the fact that this it is in all probability a symbol, not a fact - this article certainly doesn't give that impression! It reinforces what Campbell Morgan says: "Men have been looking so long at the great fish that they have failed to see the Great God of Jonah" see [1] Peter Shearan 13:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Well I see three possibilities here:

1. The fish was just made up as a story element

2. The fish is a symbol for something

3. Jonah was indeed swallowed by a fish and God did some kind of miracle to stop him from being sliced by the animals teeths, dissolved by its digestive tract, crushed by the depths of the sea and suffocated by the lack of oxygen.

[edit] Jonah in Islam

I created a new short section about Jonah in Islam, because the article categorizes him as an Islamic prophet, known as Yunus, but there was no information about this subject.I am definitely not an expert on this subject, however, so it should probably be reviewed and expanded. Academic Challenger 02:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig Page

Shouldn't Jonah be a disambiguation page? Other people, such as Jonah Lomu are often referred to as just Jonah.--Hamedog_Talk|^@ 11:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

There has been a Jonah (disambiguation) page for quite a while. If you mean you think that the main Jonah page should be the disambig page, the biblical prophet is the main meaning of "Jonah" (alone) by far. --Tysto 14:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islam prophets?

I have nothing against Islam, I even like that prophets from Qu' Ran have their own wiki. But, Jonah is a prophet of all three abrhamistic religions (Judaism, Christianism and Islam), but throught I don't really know the importance on Jonah for the Qu' Ran, I study Jewish literature, and is one of the main books of the Talmud, thought I will suggest also putting it in "Talmud books" AND in the Islam prophets conjunciton (And something for cristians?).