Jonah: The setting.

Jonah Jonah opens with the Lord telling Jonah to "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me" (Jonah 1:2). What was so great about Nineveh and why was God interested in it in ~750 BCE? Archaeologist Henry Layard's image of Nineveh. Nineveh was… Continue reading Jonah: The setting.