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jonah Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 90, 91, 102, 103
Ben-Eliyahu (2019), Identity and Territory : Jewish Perceptions of Space in Antiquity. 27
Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 122
Cain (2016), The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century, 148
Eckhardt (2011), Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals. 11, 12, 26
Gera (2014), Judith, 157, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 198, 260, 262, 269, 338, 349, 392
Kattan Gribetz et al. (2016), Genesis Rabbah in Text and Context. 240, 241
Kraemer (2010), Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, 173, 174
Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 52, 55
König (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 313
Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 166
Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 14, 137, 206
Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 58
O'Daly (2012), Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon, 221, 222, 223, 224
Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 48, 73
jonah, and the son of man, bible Ayres Champion and Crawford (2023), The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions. 319
jonah, and the whale MacDougall (2022), Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition. 74
jonah, attitude of josephus toward Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 515
jonah, book of Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 11, 198, 211
jonah, children, in joel and Gera (2014), Judith, 46, 47, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 189
jonah, during the enlightenment Sneed (2022), Taming the Beast: A Reception History of Behemoth and Leviathan, 152
jonah, fraenkel Klawans (2009), Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple: Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism, 305, 306, 307
Schremer (2010), Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity, 156
jonah, god-fearers, alleged reference to in Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 516
jonah, invocation of death Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 73
jonah, magi, the Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 48
jonah, odysseus Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 19, 23, 49, 51
jonah, omission in josephus’ version of book of that ninevites believed in god Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 299
jonah, paul, apostle Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 49
jonah, r. Monnickendam (2020), Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity: Betrothal, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian, 151
jonah, sign of Sneed (2022), Taming the Beast: A Reception History of Behemoth and Leviathan, 147
jonah, simeon b., r. Fishbane (2003), Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 358
jonah, swallowed by ketos Sneed (2022), Taming the Beast: A Reception History of Behemoth and Leviathan, 146
jonah, telemachus Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 23, 28, 57
jonah, tobiah Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 7, 19, 20, 28, 29, 32, 43, 46, 48, 49, 50, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 69, 70, 98, 99, 129, 132, 140, 147, 148, 150, 151, 155
jonah, tobit Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 71, 72, 140

List of validated texts:
10 validated results for "jonah"
1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 22.12 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 269; Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 166

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22.12 וַיֹּאמֶר אַל־תִּשְׁלַח יָדְךָ אֶל־הַנַּעַר וְאַל־תַּעַשׂ לוֹ מְאוּמָּה כִּי עַתָּה יָדַעְתִּי כִּי־יְרֵא אֱלֹהִים אַתָּה וְלֹא חָשַׂכְתָּ אֶת־בִּנְךָ אֶת־יְחִידְךָ מִמֶּנִּי׃'' None
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22.12 And he said: ‘Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou art a God-fearing man, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me.’'' None
2. Hebrew Bible, Jonah, 1.1, 1.3-1.5, 1.7-1.10, 2.1, 4.8 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah • Jonah, swallowed by ketos • children, in Joel and Jonah • invocation of death, Jonah

 Found in books: Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 122; Eckhardt (2011), Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals. 11, 26; Gera (2014), Judith, 46, 47, 198, 260, 269, 338, 349; Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 166; Mathews (2013), Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John, 58; Sneed (2022), Taming the Beast: A Reception History of Behemoth and Leviathan, 146; Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 73; Visnjic (2021), The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, 204, 205

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1.3 וַיָּקָם יוֹנָה לִבְרֹחַ תַּרְשִׁישָׁה מִלִּפְנֵי יְהוָה וַיֵּרֶד יָפוֹ וַיִּמְצָא אָנִיָּה בָּאָה תַרְשִׁישׁ וַיִּתֵּן שְׂכָרָהּ וַיֵּרֶד בָּהּ לָבוֹא עִמָּהֶם תַּרְשִׁישָׁה מִלִּפְנֵי יְהוָה׃ 1.4 וַיהוָה הֵטִיל רוּחַ־גְּדוֹלָה אֶל־הַיָּם וַיְהִי סַעַר־גָּדוֹל בַּיָּם וְהָאֳנִיָּה חִשְּׁבָה לְהִשָּׁבֵר׃ 1.5 וַיִּירְאוּ הַמַּלָּחִים וַיִּזְעֲקוּ אִישׁ אֶל־אֱלֹהָיו וַיָּטִלוּ אֶת־הַכֵּלִים אֲשֶׁר בָּאֳנִיָּה אֶל־הַיָּם לְהָקֵל מֵעֲלֵיהֶם וְיוֹנָה יָרַד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי הַסְּפִינָה וַיִּשְׁכַּב וַיֵּרָדַם׃
1.7
וַיֹּאמְרוּ אִישׁ אֶל־רֵעֵהוּ לְכוּ וְנַפִּילָה גוֹרָלוֹת וְנֵדְעָה בְּשֶׁלְּמִי הָרָעָה הַזֹּאת לָנוּ וַיַּפִּלוּ גּוֹרָלוֹת וַיִּפֹּל הַגּוֹרָל עַל־יוֹנָה׃ 1.9 וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם עִבְרִי אָנֹכִי וְאֶת־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם אֲנִי יָרֵא אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה אֶת־הַיָּם וְאֶת־הַיַּבָּשָׁה׃
2.1
וַאֲנִי בְּקוֹל תּוֹדָה אֶזְבְּחָה־לָּךְ אֲשֶׁר נָדַרְתִּי אֲשַׁלֵּמָה יְשׁוּעָתָה לַיהוָה׃
2.1
וַיְמַן יְהוָה דָּג גָּדוֹל לִבְלֹעַ אֶת־יוֹנָה וַיְהִי יוֹנָה בִּמְעֵי הַדָּג שְׁלֹשָׁה יָמִים וּשְׁלֹשָׁה לֵילוֹת׃
4.8
וַיְהִי כִּזְרֹחַ הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ וַיְמַן אֱלֹהִים רוּחַ קָדִים חֲרִישִׁית וַתַּךְ הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ עַל־רֹאשׁ יוֹנָה וַיִּתְעַלָּף וַיִּשְׁאַל אֶת־נַפְשׁוֹ לָמוּת וַיֹּאמֶר טוֹב מוֹתִי מֵחַיָּי׃' ' None
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1.3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD. 1.4 But the LORD hurled a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 1.5 And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
1.7
And they said every one to his fellow: ‘Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.’ So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. 1.9 And he said unto them: ‘I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.’
2.1
And the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
4.8
And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said: ‘It is better for me to die than to live.’' ' None
3. None, None, nan (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah • children, in Joel and Jonah

 Found in books: Eckhardt (2011), Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals. 11; Gera (2014), Judith, 46

4. Hebrew Bible, 1 Samuel, 12.3 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 198; Visnjic (2021), The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, 204

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12.3 הִנְנִי עֲנוּ בִי נֶגֶד יְהוָה וְנֶגֶד מְשִׁיחוֹ אֶת־שׁוֹר מִי לָקַחְתִּי וַחֲמוֹר מִי לָקַחְתִּי וְאֶת־מִי עָשַׁקְתִּי אֶת־מִי רַצּוֹתִי וּמִיַּד־מִי לָקַחְתִּי כֹפֶר וְאַעְלִים עֵינַי בּוֹ וְאָשִׁיב לָכֶם׃'' None
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12.3 Behold, here I am: answer me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe with which to blind my eyes? and I will restore it you.'' None
5. Hebrew Bible, Judges, 9.7 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah

 Found in books: Cain (2016), The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto: Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century, 148; Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 206

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9.7 וַיַּגִּדוּ לְיוֹתָם וַיֵּלֶךְ וַיַּעֲמֹד בְּרֹאשׁ הַר־גְּרִזִים וַיִּשָּׂא קוֹלוֹ וַיִּקְרָא וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם שִׁמְעוּ אֵלַי בַּעֲלֵי שְׁכֶם וְיִשְׁמַע אֲלֵיכֶם אֱלֹהִים׃'' None
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9.7 And when they told it to Yotam, he went and stood at the top of mount Gerizzim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Hearken to me, men of Shekhem, that God may hearken to you.'' None
6. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah • Jonah, Odysseus • Jonah, Paul (apostle) • Jonah, Tobiah

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 338; Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 49

7. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah • children, in Joel and Jonah • invocation of death, Jonah

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 185; Toloni (2022), The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis, 73

8. New Testament, Acts, 2.23-2.31 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah

 Found in books: Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 166; Ruzer (2020), Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament: Reflections in the Dim Mirror, 131; Visnjic (2021), The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, 377

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2.23 τοῦτον τῇ ὡρισμένῃ βουλῇ καὶ προγνώσει τοῦ θεοῦ ἔκδοτον διὰ χειρὸς ἀνόμων προσπήξαντες ἀνείλατε, 2.24 ὃν ὁ θεὸς ἀνέστησεν λύσας τὰς ὠδῖνας τοῦ θανάτου, καθότι οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν κρατεῖσθαι αὐτὸν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ· 2.25 Δαυεὶδ γὰρ λέγει εἰς αὐτόν 2.26 2.27 2.29 Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, ἐξὸν εἰπεῖν μετὰ παρρησίας πρὸς ὑμᾶς περὶ τοῦ πατριάρχου Δαυείδ, ὅτι καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν καὶ ἐτάφη καὶ τὸ μνῆμα αὐτοῦ ἔστιν ἐν ἡμῖν ἄχρι τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης· 2.30 προφήτης οὖν ὑπάρχων, καὶ εἰδὼς ὅτι ὅρκῳ ὤμοσεν αὐτῷ ὁ θεὸςἐκ καρποῦ τῆς ὀσφύος αὐτοῦ καθίσαι ἐπὶ τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ, 2.31 προιδὼν ἐλάλησεν περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ χριστοῦ ὅτι οὔτε ἐνκατελείφθη εἰς ᾄδην οὔτε ἡ σὰρξ αὐτοῦεἶδεν διαφθοράν.'' None
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2.23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed; 2.24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it. ' "2.25 For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved. " '2.26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope; 2.27 Because you will not leave my soul in Hades, Neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. ' "2.28 You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.' " '2.29 "Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 2.30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 2.31 he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. '' None
9. New Testament, Luke, 4.21, 11.29-11.30 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah

 Found in books: Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 166; Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 14; Ruzer (2020), Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament: Reflections in the Dim Mirror, 131, 135, 163

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4.21 ἤρξατο δὲ λέγειν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὅτι Σήμερον πεπλήρωται ἡ γραφὴ αὕτη ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν ὑμῶν.
11.29
Τῶν δὲ ὄχλων ἐπαθροιζομένων ἤρξατο λέγειν Ἡ γενεὰ αὕτη γενεὰ πονηρά ἐστιν· σημεῖον ζητεῖ, καὶ σημεῖον οὐ δοθήσεται αὐτῇ εἰ μὴ τὸ σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ. 11.30 καθὼς γὰρ ἐγένετο ὁ Ἰωνᾶς τοῖς Νινευείταις σημεῖον, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ.'' None
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4.21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
11.29
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. 11.30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation. '' None
10. New Testament, Matthew, 12.40 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jonah • Jonah, sign of

 Found in books: Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 166; Ruzer (2020), Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament: Reflections in the Dim Mirror, 131, 135, 163; Sneed (2022), Taming the Beast: A Reception History of Behemoth and Leviathan, 147; Visnjic (2021), The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology, 377

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12.40 ὥσπερ γὰρ ἦν Ἰωνᾶς ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ τοῦ κήτους τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας, οὕτως ἔσται ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ τῆς γῆς τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας.'' None
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12.40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. '' None



Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.