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The ancient Israeli ambassador to the Land of Assyria Israel should be applying the model left by the Prophet Jonah, about whom we read just ten days ago, on Yom Kippur. Op-ed.
Assyrians were the first converts to Christianity outside of the Apostles and Disciples. Prayers are offered to God to help with the plague. The Assyrian church, recalling Jonah's visit to Assyria ...
Jonah barely whispers his message in the marketplace, and suddenly the King of Assyria orders the whole nation to put on sackcloth and ashes.
Although, other candidates for Jonah's “king of Nineveh” do exist, Adad-Nirari III seems to be an interesting fit due to his little-known monotheistic revolution. For reasons unknown Adad-Nirari III ...
Jonah 3:4 Thus, a 40-day countdown began for the people of Nineveh to repent. Nineveh's guilt was concerning the Assyria's oppression against the Jewish people, taking them into captivity to Assyria ...
Indeed, Assyria defeated the ten tribes and banished them into exile in the 8th century B.C.E. Jonah cannot understand why God is interested in Assyria’s repentance.
His reading excuses Jonah’s objection to God’s pardon of the inhabitants of Nineveh, part of the nation of Assyria which would, tragically in a later generation, attack the ancient Israelites ...
Deep inside looters' tunnels dug beneath the Tomb of Jonah in the ancient Iraq city of Nineveh, archaeologists have uncovered 2,700-year-old inscriptions that describe the rule of an Assyrian king ...
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