What kinds of works of art relate to the story of Jonah? What kind of literary work or quote also relates to this? I just need some help geting started on my project.
2007-01-03 10:18:11 · 8 answers · asked by Kelly 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A biblical allusion would be an indirect reference to an event or person in the bible. For example, "The man was strong like Jonah."
As far as the story of Jonah:
Jonah was the son of Amittai ("True"), from the Galilean village of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth. God orders Jonah to preach at the city of Nineveh. Jonah does not want to, and tries to avoid God's command by sailing to Tarshish. A huge storm arises. The sailors, realizing this is no ordinary storm, cast lots, and learn that Jonah is to blame. Jonah admits this, and states that if he is thrown overboard, the storm will cease. The sailors throw him overboard, and the seas calm. Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a large fish. In chapter two, while in the great fish, Jonah prays to God and asks forgiveness and thanks God for being so faithful, and, as a result, God commands the fish to vomit Jonah out.
God again orders Jonah to visit Nineveh and preach to its inhabitants. He therefore goes there and walks through it, crying "In forty days Nineveh shall be destroyed." The Ninevites believe his word, and appoint a public fast, from the meanest of the people to the greatest; the king himself putting on sackcloth and sitting in ashes. God has compassion and does not bring His wrath against the city at that time.
Jonah is embittered by this. He questions the need for his journey, stating that since God is merciful, it was inevitable that God would yield to the Ninevites' entreaties--what need, then, for Jonah's journey? After this he retires out of the city and makes a shelter for himself, waiting to see if the city will be destroyed or not.
The Lord causes a plant (in Hebrew a kikayon) to grow over his shelter, giving Jonah some shade from the sun. Later, a worm bites the plant's root and it withers. Jonah, being now exposed to the burning heat of the sun, becomes faint and desires that God take him out of the world.
The Lord says unto him, "Do you have reason to be concerned at the death of a plant, which cost you nothing, which rises one night and dies the next; yet would you not have me pardon such a city as Nineveh, in which are 120,000 persons not able to distinguish their right hand from their left, and many beasts besides? -Wikipedia
Also, here is a really good website that has art featuring Jonah.
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/jonah/jonah.html
2007-01-03 11:37:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biblical Illusion
2016-11-07 07:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by rothi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As indicated above, that's Allusion, not illusion.
An allusion is a reference to a person or event. It could be to somebody in history, literature, music, art, etc.
You see and hear allusions all the time.
Isn't there something in the story of Pinocchio (at least in the Disney version) about being swallowed by a whale? That's an allusion (a reference) to the Jonah story.
Good luck with your assignment. Maybe you should Google "Jonah" and "allusion."
2007-01-03 11:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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What kinds of works of art relate to the story of Jonah? What kind of literary work or quote also relates to this? I just need some help geting started on my project.
2015-08-18 14:51:21 · answer #4 · answered by Vernia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biblical scripture "eye for an eye" means to do unto others just as they have done to you. For instance, if someone punches you then you punch them back, or if someone does something harmful to you then you harm them back. There is no "modern" meaning compared to the meaning 2,000 years ago. It means the same thing today as it meant back in the biblical days. Matthew 5:38-39 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
2016-03-18 03:35:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's ALLUSION not Illusion it means a story used for example to explain a concept.
2007-01-03 10:27:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Not an "illusion". Not an "allusion" either. It was the ancient Jewish legal code. If someone causes you to lose and eye, then that person loses an eye, if someone causes you to lose a tooth, than that person loses a tooth. This was changed by Christ to "turn the other cheek"... "if someone hits you one one cheek, turn to him the other. If someone steals your coat, give him your shirt as well."
2016-04-06 06:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of us would argue that most everything in the bible is an illusion.
2007-01-03 11:12:17 · answer #8 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a paradox, and an oxymoron.
2007-01-03 10:32:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-01-03 10:29:39 · answer #10 · answered by A B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋