Thanks for that very interesting link. I read some and scanned the rest. Your reference to its scale is certainly justified: the king’s palace alone had 160 million bricks.
Jonah’s cross-cultural protest of God’s concern for the Ninevites finds a parallel, I suggest, in the disciples’ antipathy toward the Gentiles. There was a lesson there for them if they’d had the wit to notice. And we have lessons there for us.
What is interesting is I had always thought Nineveh was a real place, not some fictional representation or allegory as alleged by nitpicking Bible fact checkers.
As it turns out, Nineveh had been rediscovered in the 1800’s and proves the Bible to be a history book but, also the rule and guide of our faith.
It is thought that Monotheism has it’s origins in Nineveh and the Jewish people originated that thought
From Dismas to Jonah...
All done for Tonight Dan.
Very fine Resorce. 🙂