Jonah

Yonah

Anonymous (a later narrative built around the earlier prophet Jonah ben Amittai, mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25) · c. 450-350 BC; late Biblical Hebrew and its universalist theology place it well after the historical Jonah it is named for · Judah (Israel) · scripture

A postexilic satire built around an older prophet's name, mocking a prophet who resents God's mercy toward Israel's enemies and using an exaggerated Nineveh conversion story to argue against ethnic particularism. Its own place of composition is uncertain, distinct from Nineveh, its narrative setting.