Lent begins today with Ash Wednesday.
In the Hebrew Scriptures, after Jonah has announced the destruction of Nineveh and the news reaches the king, he rises from the throne, lays aside his robe, puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes. The king then proclaims a fast. Nineveh mourns its sins and...
As for symbols of mortality, getting only slightly off-topic here, I always found the use of an akakia a profound part of the Eastern tradition:
Akakia - Wikipedia
It was a purple silk roll filled with dust to symbolize the mortality of all.
To the ancients ashes were often symbolic of mortality, mourning or penance. In Hebrew Scripture after Jonah has announced the destruction of Nineveh and the news reached the king he rises from the throne, puts off his robe, puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes, and then proclaims a fast. Nineveh...
@Skwim,
How come you excluded the one paragraph of my reply that pertained to some of those issues?
(BTW, regarding Adam being deceived...1 Timothy 2:14)
I'll post it again:
"Further, by Jesus saying to them that he (the Devil) was the "father of the lie" and "a manslayer", no deceit had ever...
Latter Day Saints,just some tid-bits that I have put together over the years. I love the Bible and I read it. However, no prophets of God are infallible. No holy writ is perfect. Man has not given me a witness that the bible is true. I know the Bible is true by the power of the Holy Ghost; there...
The verb hafach, which is, in fact, what's used in the text, is an idiom known to be used for complete destruction. In its original context, that is almost certainly how it is intended to be used.
But there are a couple of much later midrashim that play on the double meaning of the word, saying...
Maybe some of the Jewish guys on here can comment or verify this:
In Jonah 3:4 God told Jonah to bring the message to Ninevah that in forty days they would be overthrown. The text does not say destroyed, but overthrown. I was reading that the word overthrown in Jonah 3:4 in Hebrew is...
It doesn't say that Jonah was realeased right next to Ninehvah. It simply says tht he was spit up onto dry land, then went to Ninevah. So, it seems to me that the animal could have spit him back up near Joppa, and Jonah could have walked from there.
Jonah 2:10And the LORD commanded the fish...