Comments on: Jonah and the “Big Fish” http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-19273 Paul Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:37:03 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/#comment-19273 On the whale/fish debate, and whether a whale could ‘swallow’ a man, do bear in mind that it is only in VERY RECENT history that we have known that whales [as with other cetations, such as dolphins] are in fact mammals and not fish, and no such distinction existed during Biblical times, so there is no conflict with the Hebrew word we translate “fish” and the possibility that Jonah was, in fact, inside a whale.

Then again, there are whales and whales, so the teacher in the anecdote is wrong to say no whale could swallow a man whole; nothing bigger than tiny organisms get into a baleen whale due to its filter; other species have large pharyngeal cavities that will be full of regularly renewed air, commodious enough for a man.

But why do we feel we always have to try to prove that a MIRACLE is possible?!

]]> By: Simon Montagu http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-8068 Simon Montagu Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:10:41 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/#comment-8068 That’s nice, it’s kind of a modern urban version of The False Knight On The Road

]]> By: tim bulkeley http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-8048 tim bulkeley Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:45:36 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/08/16/jonah-and-the-big-fish/#comment-8048 Oh, yes don’t “forget”! I wish I was teaching Jonah to a Hebrew class. Though I enjoyed teaching it to an English medium class too.

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