Jonah on display
David Blamires describes his fascination with the Book of Jonah leading to a display at Chetham’s Library in Manchester
When I was invited to give the Bible half hours at New England Yearly Meeting in the summer of 1967, I chose to give my first talk on the Book of Jonah. Apart from the Psalms, Jonah is my favourite part of the Hebrew Bible. Pretty well everybody knows about Jonah and the whale. It’s an extraordinary story in almost every sense. Some people go to amazing lengths attempting to prove it to be literally credible. Others accept it as a folktale full of enigmatic depths.
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