Episode 24: Jonah — The Prophet Who Fled from God

The book of Jonah belongs to the minor prophets and is traditionally placed in the 8th century BC, during the reign of Jeroboam 2 in Israel. Jewish tradition attributes its authorship to the prophet Jonah himself, son of Amittai, also mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25. Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, Israel's most feared enemy at the time, which makes God's command to preach mercy to it all the more radical. A curious fact: Jonah is the only prophetic book of the Old Testament whose message is directed exclusively at a foreign nation. Jesus himself cited the story of Jonah as a sign of his own death and resurrection (Matthew 12:40).

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