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In the language of the Bible, “prophecy” has quite a broad meaning—but it refers, primarily, to the idea of “speaking in the name of God.” The entire Old Testament could be said to be prophetic, but some books carry the names of four “major” and twelve “minor” prophets—a distinction based on length. Not all of them easy to date, the authors and editors of these books—collectively the “roll of the...

foretell more and greater ideas and events than can be gleaned from a literal interpretation […]. Jonah, the most beautiful dove, prefigures the passion of the Lord; he calls the world to conversion and, in his mission to Nineveh, proclaims salvation to the Gentiles” (Epistulae, 53). 1:1–3. The book begins with the failed attempt to send Jonah on a mission. The place-names and the whole scene are less real than symbolic: Jonah is sent to Nineveh
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