Jonah, thrown overboard, finds himself in the belly of a fish. As Moses’ snake/staff had before, the creature serves as a miraculous means of demonstrating God’s might.

When it became apparent to Jonah that he was the reason for the storm, he asked to be thrown overboard. And immediately the storm ceased. Jonah found himself in the storm-tossed sea with weeds ...

Jonah doesn’t want to, for whatever reason, so he flees to a ship. A storm surrounds the ship and the sailors throw him overboard — at Jonah’s own instruction — where he is swallowed by a ...

JONAH WASN'T SWALLOWED.; Doubt Thrown Upon His Story by Rabbis at Jewish Chautauqua. Share full article. Special to The New York Times. Aug. 10, 1906; ...