Prophet Jonah’s one moment in time for affecting Nineveh
by Damien F. Mackey Only by a radical revision of the neo-Assyrian regal succession can Jonah’s Nineveh incident be once again retrieved. “The things that you’re liable, to read in the Bible …” Without the guidance of the Book of Tobit we may have stumbled about forever without being able to correlate a crucial portion of neo-Assyrian history with the Bible: Book of Tobit corrects the textbook history (8) Book of Tobit corrects the textbook history Previously I have written regarding the difficulties of historicising Jonah in Nineveh: For would-be trackers of Jonah’s “king of Nineveh” (Jonah 3:6), and the Jonah incident, that biblical text (2 Kings 14:25): [Jeroboam II] was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Dead Sea, in accordance with the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah...