So I'm sure none of you will be surprised to find out that the story of Jonah is one of my favorite

stories in Scripture.

It is a story that I've thought about for many, many years, for 20 years, and I've explored

also an iconography.

I've made a few versions of the icon of Jonah in the fish.

And I also recently made an ink drawing that I colored and, you know,

it just kind of plunged me back into the story of Jonah. And so I thought we could go over

the story of Jonah, especially looking out how the story of Jonah shows us the interesting

inversions or the flips that happen at the edge of the world.

We see it very clearly in the story of Jonah, how this is related to resurrection,

and how it is related to repentance as well.

So we're going to look at all that together.

So we're going to look at all that together. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So for those who do not know the story of Jonah, I will try to recap it as fast as I can.

So Jonah is a prophet. He's a prophet of God. And God calls upon him to go to Nineveh and to tell the people of Nineveh

that the city is going to be destroyed and and so Jonah doesn't want to go. He doesn't want to

go to Nineveh and it doesn't say in the text why he doesn't want to go but there's a few

things that you need to understand is that Nineveh is the enemy of Israel at the time. And so if you had to name the biggest enemy,

it would be the Syrian Empire of which the capital is Nineveh. So God is telling Jonah to go

there and tell them that God will destroy the city. So instead of going east, which is where he would be going, if he went to

Nineveh, Jonah ends up going west. He goes to Tarshish, which is related, it seems, to Spain. And so he

leaves on the Mediterranean on a boat to go to Spain, going the opposite direction of where he's

supposed to go. Now you have to see it in terms

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