{"id":77750,"date":"2020-07-21T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=77750"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:06:48","slug":"get-up-go-to-nineveh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/get-up-go-to-nineveh\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Up, Go To Nineveh?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"77750","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"529","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Berlin, 1936\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:2 \u201c\u2018Get up, go to Nineveh the great city, and call out against it, for their evil has risen before Me.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The entire fabulous proportions of its vastness will become clear in chapter 3. Although there are a couple of rare instances in the Book of Kings of an Israelite prophets going on a mission to a foreign country, the call to go to Nineveh is anomalous and hardly historical. Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire, no longer existed by the likely time of Jonah\u2019s composition; however, it is remembered as the power that entirely destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and later seriously threatened the southern kingdom of Judah as well. To send a Hebrew prophet to Nineveh would be rather like sending a Jewish speaker to deliver moral exhortation to the Germans in Berlin in 1936. While Jonah\u2019s words to God in 4:2 make it clear that he does not want to undertake the mission because he foresees that the Ninevites will repent and that God will forgive them, he might well also be afraid to go to Nineveh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. 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