Everybody knows about Jonah and the "whale." It is probably the only thing they remember about Jonah, and it may be the least important from a theological point of view. Jim Wood follows up on his earlier discussion of Nahum with the other prophetic work centered on the city of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire. Nahum rather gleefully described Nineveh's violent destruction; Jonah is given an opportunity to save Nineveh and its inhabitants--an opportunity he tries to avoid!
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