Jonah and Nineveh
About this date: Date of Jonah's setting is not the same as the debated date of the book's composition.
The narrative challenges narrow expectations of mercy through Jonah's mission to Nineveh.
People
- Jonah
Scripture
- 2 Kings 14:25 — Kings briefly names Jonah as a prophet in the reign of Jeroboam II; it does not retell the book of Jonah.
- Jonah 1–4 — Jonah resists a mission to Nineveh, which repents, and the story ends by questioning his anger at mercy.