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10Īs images from the book of Jonah are discussed in the following sections of this article, readers may find it enlightening to remember that the Old Testament Jehovah is the premortal Jesus. Written in this manner, these prophecies of Jesus’s future life and atonement would have been protected from censorship by those who might obliterate or obfuscate them. I propose that the story of Jonah, whether literal or not, was written in a typological style to mask the book’s Christ-centered prophecy.
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9 This article focuses instead on the book’s typological mode of prophecy of Christ. Much discussion about the book of Jonah has debated whether its story reflects literal history or not, what the book’s literary form is, and how its purpose should be understood. But the authoritative communicator was certainly not the actual historical author of the book.” 8 One scholar notes that it is much more useful to ponder about the meaning of the book rather than its authorship and history: “Since the book was considered to provide legitimate knowledge about Y hwh and Y hwh’s ways, and as such was included in the accepted repertoire of prophetic books, the communicator must have been construed as ‘authoritative.’ Had this not been the case, there would have been no reason to continue studying, copying, reading and reading to others this text. 6 This range of time is well past the life of the Old Testament prophet Jonah associated with the reign of King Jeroboam II in 2 Kings 14:25 (788 BC). The language, style, and theology of the book of Jonah suggest that it was most likely written between 450 and 300 BC. The History and Purpose of the Book of Jonah All of these images may be seen as pointing to Jesus, his attributes, his sacrifice, and his divine roles. When Jesus told Pharisees they could look for the sign of Jonah, he evoked many images of the dove, his baptism, his mission and messiahship, as well as his overcoming death. The dove is also the “form” in which the Holy Ghost descended upon Jesus after his baptism, when the Father affirmed that Jesus is his Son. For Isaiah, the dove is one who mourns (Isa. Doves were used for sacrifice at the temple (Lev. The dove is a symbol of peace, as in Noah’s sending out a dove from the ark, signaling the end of the Flood (Gen. 5 Prophets are known by their fruits and their messages that lead to Christ, and the book of Jonah is no exception. Latter-day Saint scholars have noted that all prophets, in a way, are types of Christ. All of these foreshadowings-especially those that seem particularly obvious-make Jesus’s statement about the sign of Jonah even more meaningful. 4 It is not my goal to force a parallel between every part of the book of Jonah with something in the life and mission of Christ but rather to point out parallels that appear to have gone unnoticed. 1263), 3 have noticed elements in the book of Jonah that parallel events in the life and mission of Jesus, I have not found any modern author who lists all the possible elements that may well foreshadow the life and mission of Christ, although at least half of the items discussed in this article were identified and written about by Early Christian Fathers. While many scholars, dating back at least to Hugh of St. Cher (d. 2 But there are several additional parallels between Jonah and Jesus.
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Most prominent is the image of Jonah’s three days and three nights “in the whale’s belly” being a sign of Jesus’s three days and three nights “in the heart of the earth” (Matt. Symbolic incidents in the book of Jonah are revealed in the New Testament as Jesus explicitly referred to “the sign of Jonah” 1 and then fulfilled its typological allusions. This article outlines the parallels between elements of the book of Jonah and Jesus’s future life, agony, crucifixion, spirit world ministry, and resurrection. But this small book has a much deeper, more powerful message that has been obscured through the ages: that the Messiah would live and die to make salvation available to all humankind. The Old Testament book of Jonah is a remarkable story perhaps best known for the stubbornness of a prophet, the great fish that swallows and then regurgitates Jonah, the conversion of the whole city of Nineveh, and the rapid growth and death of a gourd.