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COMMENTARY ON JONAH Jonah is commanded by Yahweh to go on a prophetic mission to Nineveh but refuses, and tries to escape from this obligation by fleeing on a ship to Tarshish. 1. The tale begins with And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, as if it were a continuation, or as if it had been originally one of a cycle of stories. But the phrase and it came to pass had in course of time become so much used in narratives that it could stand at
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