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Appointments: The Story of Jonah

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We know Jonah, right? He’s the prophet who got swallowed by a whale and after three days the whale threw him up on the shore. Actually, in the story, it’s not a whale exactly but a “Leviathan,” a mythical sea beast that embodied everything ancient people feared about the seas—the unknown, the hidden depths, the belief that the sea was the edge of chaos and a boat could sail off into space, the fact that it was uncontrollable, and even, from an ancient perspective, kind of a Demi-God, and God’s enemy.Read More »Appointments: The Story of Jonah