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Jonah / Yunus

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Prophetic figure in Jonah and the Qur’an; distinguish the Kings notice from the book’s composition and later reception.

Roman marble table base depicting Jonah swallowed and cast up by a marine creature, early fourth century CE. Metropolitan Museum,77.7, public-domain photograph. Evidence of Christian artistic reception, not an artifact from the prophet’s time or identification of his fish’s species
Roman marble table base depicting Jonah swallowed and cast up by a marine creature, early fourth century CE. Metropolitan Museum,77.7, public-domain photograph. Evidence of Christian artistic reception, not an artifact from the prophet’s time or identification of his fish’s speciesMetropolitan Museum of Art,77.7 / Public Domain · Public domainObject record

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Second Kings14:25 names Jonah son of Amittai in a notice of restored borders. Jonah narrates flight, fish, NinevehNineveh and KuyunjikNineveh is an ancient Assyrian city near Mosul in northern Iraq; Kuyunjik is one of its archaeological moundsGlossary · Click to read the explanation’s mission and debate over mercy; the name’s occurrence does not date this book. In al-Saffat139–148 Yunus appears with ship, lots, swallowing, prayer, deliverance and mission. That passage neither names Nineveh nor states a three-day duration. Distinguish the character’s time, narrative witnesses and interpretation. [2][3][4][5][14]

References and notes

  1. Complete Jonah 2 read in Hebrew and facing English; Hebrew numbering, not an original-manuscript inspection. Jonah 2:1–11; Hebrew numbering Return to the text ↑
  2. Complete Jonah 3 read in Hebrew and facing English; Hebrew numbering, not an original-manuscript inspection. Jonah 3:1–10; Hebrew numbering Return to the text ↑
  3. Complete Jonah 4 read in Hebrew and facing English; Hebrew numbering, not an original-manuscript inspection. Jonah 4:1–11; Hebrew numbering Return to the text ↑
  4. 14:23–29 read in full; the prophet’s border-restoration notice differs from the Nineveh and fish narrative. 2 Kings 14:23–29, especially 25 Return to the text ↑
  5. Specified Arabic verses and English translation read; not the complete surah or commentary. Explanatory translation additions are not Arabic verse wording. al-Saffat37:139–148 Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 12 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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